IMG Update: Climbers Safely Descend to C2; Tragedy in BC
May 11, 2009 – This morning our South Col team woke up to windy weather and some more snow overnight, and decided to head on down. Justin, Jon, John, Mingma Tenzing, Phinjo, Kancha Nuru, and Ang Karma descended successfully from the Col to Camp 2 and will be heading down to BC in the morning.
We had a sad story develop today at Base Camp with the death of one sherpa cook boy overnight and the near fatal poisoning of another, from other expeditions, both stricken after drinking locally purchased bootleg whiskey made with methyl alcohol. The weather at BC was too cloudy to get a helicopter in today for him, and HRA docs Eric and Torrey worked hard all day to save the life of the second guy. At this time his status is still uncertain. I hope the Liason Officers will do an investigation into this crime; this is really such a tragedy. [More at IMG]
May 11, 2009 – This morning our South Col team woke up to windy weather and some more snow overnight, and decided to head on down. Justin, Jon, John, Mingma Tenzing, Phinjo, Kancha Nuru, and Ang Karma descended successfully from the Col to Camp 2 and will be heading down to BC in the morning.
We had a sad story develop today at Base Camp with the death of one sherpa cook boy overnight and the near fatal poisoning of another, from other expeditions, both stricken after drinking locally purchased bootleg whiskey made with methyl alcohol. The weather at BC was too cloudy to get a helicopter in today for him, and HRA docs Eric and Torrey worked hard all day to save the life of the second guy. At this time his status is still uncertain. I hope the Liason Officers will do an investigation into this crime; this is really such a tragedy. [More at IMG]
