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Ropes fixed to the summit! Expect our summit to be between 7pm and 10pm EDT. Will send tracking along the way up and on the summit. Woohoo!

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Phil and Aunt Theresa, thanks for following and posting. The support means so much and gives me and my teammates the extra boost when things look grim.

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Please send questions. I might be a little busy climbing over the next few days but I will answer your questions when I have a chance. Thanks everyone.

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Thanks Oakwood class. Coming to you live from Everest Advanced Basecamp on the Tibet side. Thanks for the support.

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Made it to ABC!

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off to abc

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Made it to IBC. Just enjoyed 2 bowls of noodle soup. Feeling awesome!

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I'm starting my trip. Follow along at my MapShare site!

The summit push start

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One day delay...

We head up in two days.  Our planned summit attempt is now May 19th.  Here is our rough plan...

We head to IBC on the 13th, up to ABC on the 14th, then 2 days rest at ABC.  On the 16th, we'll climb up to the North Col and spend the night on 1/2 a liter of oxygen per minute.  The next day (May 17th), we climb to C2 and spend the night on oxygen - perhaps at the same flow rate.  On the 18th, we climb from C2 to C3 and try to sleep for a few hours before taking off for the summit sometime in the late evening (11pm or so).  As I mentioned, our plan is to summit on the morning of the 19th.  We should have a little time on the summit before we turn around and go as far as we can down - hopefully as far as ABC to enjoy a celebratory beer.  I aim to track each climbing leg so everyone can follow our progress.

These are just plans but they give you a rough sketch of what is in store for us in the upcoming days. As Mike Tyson once said "everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face." Let's hope mother nature has no plans to fight us.

One more rest day at Chinese Basecamp....

Don't get too excited...

....but it looks like we push off for the summit in 2 days.  Tomorrow we continue to hang out at Chinese Basecamp.  We are stoked!   Plans may change so stay tuned.  If we push off in 2 days, we don't really start climbing until 4 days later (1 day to IBC, 1 day to ABC, 2 days rest at ABC and then we head to the North Col).  More updates to follow for sure....