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To: abner; eddie willers
OK, I got the top 200m. This is the second step. It leads to a snow filled ravine and then up to the summit. There's another 2-300m missing. Is the first step like this one and the rest is slope?


508 posted on 05/25/2006 10:14:30 PM PDT by spunkets
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To: spunkets

I'll see if I can find my book in the morning. I'm painting the inside of my house and everything isn't where it is supposed to be.

The book, Ghosts of Everest by Eric Simonson covers the north side extensively. As it is pertinent to the attempt to find Mallory and Irvine.

On a side note, he gave me a credit in the book.. ;-) He didn't have to. I just made them some banners.


510 posted on 05/25/2006 11:46:17 PM PDT by abner (Looking for a new tagline- Next outrage please!- Got it! PRIVATE PROPERTY RIGHTS LOST IN THE USA!)
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To: spunkets
The book, Ghosts of Everest by Eric Simonson covers the north side extensively. As it is pertinent to the attempt to find Mallory and Irvine.

That's the book I picked out of boredom at the library.

It so fascinated me, that I began to really research Everest and read everything I could about it.

The picture you posted shows the "Third Step" ahead, hiding the "Snow Pyramid" that is the last feature before the summit. The picture below is the "Third Step" and beyond

Here's a great, compact photo showing the complete Route from the Northeast ridge, across a bit of the face, up to the ridge just before the "First Step", swoop below and go up the Middle of the Second Step, over the Third Step and, for most climbers, around the Snow Pyramid and up to the summit with a circuitous climb across the North Face.


513 posted on 05/26/2006 5:22:12 AM PDT by eddie willers
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