HOME CHO OYU THE TEAM DISPATCHES WILDLIFE CLASSROOM CONTACT SEPTEMBER '05 S M T W T F S 28 29 30 31 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 1 2 Cho Oyu expedition Informational links: ExplorersWeb | EverestNews MountainZone | NepalNews Nepal.com | Climbing.com Yeti Zone | Alpinist SummitPost.org | CIA Factbook

TEAM BACK HOME Thanks to everyone for following the expedition. Click on the Yak at right for video clip. Check back for slide show coming soon... SUMMIT and POW-POW... The unexpected happened for us yesterday. We'd all spent the night at Camp 3,hoping for a summit attempt the next day, but things weren't looking to hopeful. We were all tired and we went to bed with a lot of wind and heavy snow. Our first weather check at 1:30am showed the mountain socked in and still snowing. The same at 3am and again at 4am. Finally at 5:30 the weather looked to be improving enough that we thought we should go for it. We were rewarded with a most beautiful day! Of course, there was a major downside to all the snow and wind from the night before- major trailbreaking, post-holing you name it! With that said we have to gave a huge thanks to the sherpas in a friend of ours' group, because without them an already hard day would have been unimaginable! continued Measurement to convert (no commas): From: cm in. ft. yds. m chn km mi. To: cm in. ft. yds. m chn km mi.   --- Weather Conditions Tingri, Tibet: 57/35°F chance of rain sunrise 7:57am sunset 8:14pm (GPS: 28°, 6' N - 87°, 1' E) Expedition Time  PDT: 07 50 PM (+15 hrs. for Tibet) (12hrs. ahead of EST) Audio Dispatches Recorded Sept. 22, 2005 in Windows Media 9 HOW WE SEND AND RECEIVE DISPATCHES... The expedition teams take along satellite phones, laptops, PDAs, and sometimes even video phones. They make connections with ICE AXE's servers via satellites that orbit 36,000 kilometers above the Earth's equator. The encoded signal is received on the KU band (10.7-12.75 GHz). Depending on what type of dispatch the team is sending (audio, video or data-email/photos), the signal is either received directly by a television or radio station for broadcast, or routed to our servers and control center computers. Internet dispatches are converted to Quicktime movies or MP3 files and then posted on this page for immediate viewing or listening. (see illustration at left) Wallpaper 1024 x 768