Start of a New Epic Drama

Greetings all,

To our sponsors: Thank you so very much for your support! We could not have provided so much support on our end without you. Check out your logo on the banner going to base camp...its posted on the website and here on this blog. We will hopefully have pictures and stories for you when we return.

We are packed and are (somewhat) ready to depart for Everest.

For those of you who may not have been keeping up with the blog; Kristin and I are headed to Everest Base Camp to support the base camp clinic this climbing season. Katabatic has been a sponsor of the clinic from its inception by providing recommendations for high altitude medicine and equipment for the clinic.

We will be in Nepal for approximately 2-months trekking to base camp and setting up the clinic where we will stay and provide medical and rescue services for about half after which, we’ll continue on to other clinics in the area.

We will have very limited communications while there so we most likely will not be able to reply to emails but will send dispatches and posts to the blog when we can.

If you have been keeping up with the world news you may have heard of all the epic troubles in China/Tibet. China has closed the North side of Everest to any climbing expeditions this season due to the unrest. China has asked the country of Nepal to do the same; so far the only reaction from Nepal has been to limit any Everest summit attempts until after May 10th. This is an issue as teams will need to be on the mountain and cranking up to the high camps while acclimatizing before or around this date. We are proceeding as planned and hope to find out more upon arrival. We have been told we will be allowed to trek into base camp to set up the clinic in preparation for the climbing season. Stay tuned? Have you noticed that most of our undertakings recently have involved a bit of an EPIC drama? I’m a magnet…go figure!

Speaking of my being a drama magnet…there are winter storm warnings being posted here in our Colorado area for tomorrow and Monday and since we depart Monday morning we are a little stressed because our connection times are pretty slim through to Bangkok…fingers crossed.

I’ll send out another dispatch when we land. Take care and be safe out there.

'Till Then,

Tayloe & Kristin