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Written By: sean on May 27, 2013 No Comment

Noseweek have written two articles filled with defamatory allegations about Sean.  These articles contain outright lies and factual distortions.

Sean’s response:

Two weeks after publishing a malicious story online and in his very skinny magazine Noseweek, Martin Welz (editor) called me for my point of view at last. I was waiting to see how long it would […]

Written By: sean on May 4, 2013 No Comment
Mt Everest – Advanced Base Camp

The team are in great spirits having reached Advanced Base Camp yesterday (6340m). This is the closest a non-climber can get to the top of Everest – only 2300m from the summit.   Report from Sean is that the glaciers are diminishing since he was last at ABC in 1996.  It was a 7 hour, icy round […]

Written By: sean on May 2, 2013 One Comment

It’s minus 10°C with heavy, wild and driving snow.  Everyone is well but it will be a tough push tomorrow to ABC. We are camped at 6000m and there is a foot of snow.  Pic of the North East face of Mt Everest being lambasted by the winds.

 

Written By: sean on May 2, 2013 No Comment
Mt Everest swim – Sean Wisedale takes a dip

I took a dip in a glacial lake on the Rongbuk glacier above Base Camp (5200m). The water temperature was 1°C and the air temp was 4°C. In the background is the peak of Mt Everest.

 

Written By: sean on May 2, 2013 No Comment
Mt Everest Advanced Base Camp with Sean Wisedale

News from Sean is everyone is well.  Today they will trek to camp 2 (5970m)  for approx 3 hrs and meet up with the Changste glacier.  Along the trail to Camp 2 are huge seracs rising above the surface of the glacier.

Mt Everest in the background

 

 

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