Explore Himalaya Organizes Everest Expedition for Tim Rippel’s (Peak freaks Expeditions) Group

<p align=”left” class=”style1″>  Explore Himalaya is organizing the Everest expedition for a 8  member team comprising of Canadian, American, British ,Omani And Saudi Arabian  team members this Spring. The team is being led by Tim Rippel of Peak Freaks  Expeditions, a Canadian adventure company. <br />
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Tim is a veteran of 27 Himalayan expeditions including Mt.  Everest North and South six times and numerous expeditions on Mt. Pumori,  Mt. Ama Dablam, Kilimanjaro, South    America, Russia,  Canadian Rockies, West Coast and Interior,   USA and more. <br />
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Some of Tim’s Everest experiences have been aired on the  international TV&nbsp;networks. He provided footage to&nbsp;National Geographic, the Discovery Channel &quot;Climb  for Hope&quot; in 1991, and again currently for &quot;Storm Warning&quot;. In  2000 he was behind the camera for the CBC  News world live broadcast &ldquo;Mt.   Everest&rdquo; from the south  side in Nepal.&nbsp; <br />
Among the climbing members are Farouq Alzouman from Saudi Arabia  and Sultan Al_Ismaili from Oman who are  on a &nbsp;mission is to be the first  climber from their respective countries to stand on top of Everest.<br />
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The expedition team is being supported by a group of  competent climbing Sherpas. The climbing sirdar is the very experienced Dendi  Sherpa (to view his Bio &ndash; data click <a href=”http://www.explorehimalaya.com/guides_nepal.php?id=3#detail&#8221; target=”_blank” class=”style1″>here</a>)<br />
For the day-to-day updates on the  expedition’s progress you can checkout peak freak’s website <a href=”http://www.peakfreaks.com&#8221; target=”_blank” class=”style1″>www.peakfreaks.com</a>. </p>
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American Lhakpari (7045m) Expedition, Spring 2006

27th May 2006 marked yet another victory in favor of Americans, after Mr. Michael Jenkins attained glory by summiting 7045 m Mt. Lhakpa Ri. Michael along with his wife, Ms. Elizabeth Hebertson, headed for 24-day Tibet trek to climb Mt. Lhakpa Ri on 9th May 2006. The couple has several triumphs under their belt to boast their supremacy in extreme Himalayan Adventure. One such triumph is the achievement they attained last year after reaching Advance BC at 6300m.

The travel itinerary was exclusively designed to tailor the couple’s desire. After sightseeing Lhasa and Shigatse, they retreated towards mountainous terrains. As they continued climbing towards the summit of the Himalaya, their rock-strewn trails zigzagged through the glaciers making their trails more difficult and adventurous. Unfortunately, Elizabeth had to abort further climb after reaching ABC at 6300 m due to altitude sickness. Michael continued his mission and finally succeeded to reach the summit.

One of the Expedition team from Explore Himalaya encountered the American couple on this trip and had brief exchange of their traveling experiences. The couple during this interaction confessed that just like in their first trek with Explore Himalaya, they are happy and satisfied with this second trek. They further said that as discussed earlier Explore Himalaya has indeed offered them the best arrangement and logistic support. Michael also revealed that next year he would attempt to scale Mt Shishapangma, 8027m peak in Tibet, the 14th highest peak in the world.

We wish this lovely couple all the best for their yet another Himalayan Adventure!

11AM 28th May, 2006 By Suman Pandey

 

Everest North Col (7045m), Succeeded by Canadian Himalayan Expeditions’ group

A group of Canadians and Americans arrived in Kathmandu on 11th of May after their successful ascent of the “North Col of Everest (7045m)”. Explore Himalaya had a privilege to handle this group for “Canadian Himalayan Expeditions” with a three week long mission to reach the North Col which was led by Company’s Director, Mr. Joe Pilaar, had left for Lhasa on 22nd of May.

They reached the Base Camp of Everest (5200m) on 29th of May and stayed Two nights for acclimatization taking Five days to reach the ABC at 6400 m on 5th of May, giving Two days at the Intermediate Camp again, for acclimatization purpose. Sparing Two more days, 6th and 7th of May in exploring around the ABC, they finally left for their ultimate mission on 8th of May leaving ABC at 8.30 AM. It took them Two hours of hard walk along the glacier to reach bottom of the cliff before they started their technical climb which took another Two and a half hours finally, emerging on the Col at the height of 7045m.

Successful members of the Team are Joe Pilaar, the leader, along with Erica Falconer, Bruce Fessenden and Troy Smereka. David Schneider climbed up to 6800m whereas, Richard Christiani, Maria Kusina and Jerry Clayton reached 6600m. Accordingly, Linnea Christiani was up to 6500m.

Talking to Mr. Suman Pandey, president of Explore Himalaya, Mr. Joe Pilaar expressed his gratitude for organizing such a wonderful trip, ensuring maximum reliability which was the key to success of this mission. With his experience and growing confidence towards the team of Explore Himalaya, Joe is committed to promote more trips to North Col and other parts of Tibet/Nepal Himalaya with us in the coming years.

4.30 PM, 14th of May, 2006