We Are Going To Miss This Place

It's May 24th and the time is 6:47pm local time. I'm calling from Camp 2. I'm here with Terry, Bill, Paul, Dan, Tenje, Lhakpa Galu and Lhakpa Congle.

It was a beautiful sunset this evening, and we're planning on going down tomorrow, starting at 6:00 in the morning. We plan to go all the way to Base Camp. We're going to try to leave early to fight the heat down in the Icefall, which has been apparently playing havoc with the route and the ladders, so we want to try to get down through there before it gets too warm.

It's with mixed feelings that we leave this camp. Some of us are more ready to leave than others. It took a lot of work to get here, and we're going to miss this place. Some of us are gonna miss it more than others, I guess.

I'll update you with the news when we're back in Base Camp.

Thank you very much for following our expedition, bye bye.

Dan
SummitClimb Nepal Everest-Lhotse Expedition.

Our expedition team is

Dan Mazur. USA.
Philip Ling. Australia.
Bruce Manning. England
Florin Grama. Romania
Daniel Kim. USA
Mark Luscher. USA
Bill Burke. USA.
Paul Fitzpatrick. USA.
Terry Schuck. USA

Our Sherpa team is

Lhakpa Chiri. Personal Sherpa to Mark Luscher
Lhakpa Congle. Climbing Sherpa
Phuri Sherpa. Climbing Sherpa
Tenje Sherpa. Personal Sherpa to Bill Burke
Lhakpa Galu. Personal Sherpa to Terry
Kaji Sherpa. Sirdar
Jai Bar-Dur. Cook
Dawa Jangbu Sherpa. High altitude porter
Lhakpa Tundu Sherpa. Climbing Sherpa and Camp 2 cook.
Temba Sherpa. Kitchen staff