Valerio Massimo Everest Expedition 2009

Hello all, Alix here! I’ve now been at Base Camp for a week, and it’s amazing how easy it’s been to slip into camp life. Going to sleep in a freezing tent at 9pm, wearing a full down suit, gloves, and a wooly hat, seems normal; waking up in the night to the sound of [...]

Hello to all from EBC – it really is good to be back.
 
Sorry I haven’t posted properly since I left up the mountain, but thank you very much to Alix’s father who posted the brief updates I called in from my Sat Phone while I was on the mountain.
 
I have to say wow, it was [...]

Hello! This is my first chance to see the internet - or in fact any electricity- in over a week, since my last posting. My mother and I (assuming voice of the Queen for Tim) went off into the backwoods where the lodges are made of nothing but plywood (nice if your neighbour is a [...]