Our Virtual Everest Trek Day Fifteen

Not much to see through the whiteout.

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Brigantes Everest Expedition Day 15

What a disappointment! Dowting was right. We went to sleep psyched up for another exhausting clamber up ice and woke up to a whiteout blizzard.

Not much to see today! 

And it hasn’t relented – wind, snow and almost zero visibility all day. So the Western Cwm will have to wait at least until tomorrow. I’ve spent most of my day in the tent.  Fortunately I smuggled my Kindle into my rucksack so have been happily reading the Brigantes Book Club’s latest recommendation – Ketih Foskett’s  The Journey In Between about  his 1000 mile  pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela. It’s a good read, and it was much warmer there than it is here! However, I wasn’t allowed to enjoy myself all day. Dowting insisted we all get out into the blizzard and practice more with ice picks and crampons - he blackly joked that it might give us a few more minutes of life when we got to the Lhotse Face! Sometimes he can be just a tad negative, but he knows the mountain. Fingers crossed for a better tomorrow!  

Luke N Brightside

Communications Officer


I do not believe it! They have no idea. It’s all a jolly little adventure to them. Here they are marooned at the foot of the Western Cwm on the most dangerous mountain in the world   and they lie happily in their tents reading and listening to music and shouting jokes to each other. There was nearly a rebellion when I forced them out for crampon practice. But they need all the work-outs they can get. The Western Cwm is bad enough, but then the Lhotse Face is a near-vertical ice-rink! Lambs to the slaughter? 

Sherpa Dowting

Head Porter


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