All go - we have a team

Confirmed today our team will consist of the following climbing members:

• Jamie McGuiness - Kiwi (expedition leader / organiser)
• James - Irish (a doctor)
• Andy Falgate - Brit
• Gineth - USA / Costa Rica
• David Cole - Aussie, Aussie, Aussie
• Raphael - USA / French
• Anselm - Irish

...plus of course our great Sherpa team for their efforts to make this expedition possible.

Joining us also for Base Camp support will be:

• Marty - Kiwi
• Giannina - Dutch
• Tim - USA

All up a small team (originally 14 climbing members) but this will enable us to be more focused on the challenge that lie before us. We all fly to Kathmandu, Nepal next week to start breaking trail with about a week long trek up to base camp. Bye for now. David

Everest is back on

Well some awesome news today!

Jamie McGuiness our expedition organiser who has been in Nepal these past weeks trying to make through the confusing and frustrations over no permits being issues, contacted us advising that a climbing permit has been granted to our team by the Nepalese government enabling us to climb Everest from the Nepalese side.

Wow..talk about a pick me up!

This is most positive news after Tibet and Everest will be closed from the North side and we were faced with the grim prospect of waiting atleast another year to try again.

We are to get to Nepal before end of next week to immediately commence the expedition.

So, lots of organising gear this weekend in final preparation.

My website http://www.spiritofeverest.com/ will be updated over the next few days to reflect these change in plans and also have detailed route information for those of you interested to follow along.

Bye for now. David