Scott has Reached Camp IV – Higher Than Last Year’s Attempt
As you can see from this SPOT update, Scott at Camp IV (South Col) at an elevation of 7,920 meters (26,000 ft). The summit is still a bit away at 8,848 meters (29,029 ft). Scott’s summit window still focuses on a 7-8 pm 19 May EDT / 5-6 am 20 May Local time summit. Scott is walking up to the jetstream. The rest of y’all need airplanes and rockets to do that. Dig it.
Scott is using his SPOT Satellite Personal Tracker to check in. You can follow his progress all the way to the summit by checking his personal tracking page . Select “terrain” to see how close he is getting to the summit of Mt. Everest.
Scott just completed a Gigapan panorama – we believe this billion-plus pixel image to be the highest Gigapan shot ever taken on Earth.
Looking back, Scott is now much higher than he got last year. Based on a radio chat with him a few minutes ago, he is fit, energetic, and determined to make a safe ascent to the summit. His story from last year puts this year’s ascent into perfect context:
As you can see from this SPOT update, Scott at Camp IV (South Col) at an elevation of 7,920 meters (26,000 ft). The summit is still a bit away at 8,848 meters (29,029 ft). Scott’s summit window still focuses on a 7-8 pm 19 May EDT / 5-6 am 20 May Local time summit. Scott is walking up to the jetstream. The rest of y’all need airplanes and rockets to do that. Dig it.
Scott is using his SPOT Satellite Personal Tracker to check in. You can follow his progress all the way to the summit by checking his personal tracking page . Select “terrain” to see how close he is getting to the summit of Mt. Everest.
Scott just completed a Gigapan panorama – we believe this billion-plus pixel image to be the highest Gigapan shot ever taken on Earth.
Looking back, Scott is now much higher than he got last year. Based on a radio chat with him a few minutes ago, he is fit, energetic, and determined to make a safe ascent to the summit. His story from last year puts this year’s ascent into perfect context:
22 May 2008: Summit so close, yet so far…
“Just the day before I’d awoken with low back spasms (something I’ve dealt with intermittently in the past), but I had still managed to climb the very steep Lhotse face between Camps II and III in a very respectable four and a half hours, cinching my climbing harness like a weight lifter’s belt. The night at Camp II had been hard, unable to find a comfortable position for my low back for more than a minute or two. I told myself to persevere, the summit was tantalizingly close — by morning all would be well, else I’d just “ignore” the stabbing pain and press on to the top.
My buddies Adam, Kami, Namgya, Bob and others at camp were as helpful as friends could ever be under the circumstances — getting ready to move up to Camp IV for our summit assault — placing a fresh oxygen cylinder in my backpack and installing the crampons on my boots (there was no way I’d have been able to reach them. With their encouragement I braced myself and led off up the steep slope towards the Yellow Band on a test run. Within 10 paces I did an about face and told my friends “I’m done,” averting my wet eyes from probably some of theirs. I knew that if I continued up with them I’d slow them dramatically, possibly compromising their summit success, and conceivably place them in a rescue situation (mine). After 59 days on this expedition, and a lifetime of dreaming about it, it was a painful but easy decision to turn away from the summit…”
