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The Puja Ceremony
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The food ready as an offering as well as for
the celebration
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The Puja altar
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The Lama (in orange) leading the ceremony
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A pole is raised carrying flags representing
all the climbers in the group
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Juniper is at the top of the pole |
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At certain points in the ceremony, everyone
threw rice towards the altar
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Jim (left) and Paul at basecamp |
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Fiona trying out the practice ladder which
is suspended above a small frozen lake
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Fiona on the trek up to Kala Patar (everest
is the black mountain in the background) |
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The view of Everest from Kala Patar
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Fiona and Mingma on Kala Patar
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A view of a nearby mountain from basecamp
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Our campsite at basecamp (people often air
their sleeping bags out on their tents
during the day)
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Paul outside our tent at basecamp
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Jack, Fiona & Bridget in the dining tent
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The two toilet tents
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Paul and Fiona taking a walk around the base
of the icefall |
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Bridget and Chris at the base of the icefall
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Bridget, Chris, Paul and Fiona at the Puja
Altar
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The helicopter wreck from a few years
earlier
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Fiona with the same wreck |
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The landscape around the base of the icefall
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Bridget looking back towards basecamp
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A typical meal - vegetable quiche, cooked
spam, coleslaw and tomatos
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Chris and Paul in the lodge at Pheriche from
where Chris and Bridget headed down the next
day |
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Paul, Passang and Fiona - Paul and Fiona
spent another day here hoping the lower
altitude would help Paul's throat
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Back at basecamp - and Paul is in to see the
doctors at the Himalayan Rescue Association
(HRA)
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Most of the team at breakfast digging into
doughnuts and eggs
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Fiona doing the laundry outside the cook
tent |
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Inside the cook tent
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Inside the Sherpa dining tent
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A view of basecamp
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The Sherpa dining tent |
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At the start of the icefall
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Looking through a telescope from basecamp at
Sherpas carrying an injured climber down through the
icefall
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Paul having a shave
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Walter shaving |
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Basecamp after a storm dumped about a foot
of snow
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Another view of basecamp
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Inside the storage tent - tents, stoves, and
other supplies ready to be taken up to the
high camps
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Paul collecting snow to build up the
helicopter pad
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After the accident where the 3 Sherpas died
in the icefall everyone at basecamp put in a
huge effort in case a rescue was needed)
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Fiona during a game of charades after dinner
(in the background are the photos of our
whole Sherpa team)
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Paul getting our gear ready for a trip up
higher
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Jim at the base of the icefall |
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Dennis taking a drink at the base of the
icefall |
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Paul inside the supplies tent - selecting
food to take up to the higher camps
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Nema filling up the water tank - the
elevation gave the shower a small amount of
pressure
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Another accident involving an Italian who
fell in the icefall and hit his head.
Everyone helped to carry him to the
helicopter pad (Paul in red) |
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Paul, Marcus, Karl, Walter & Jim playing
cards after dinner
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Fiona practicing with the oxygen mask at
basecamp
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Paul with the oxygen set up at basecamp
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Mark manages to fit in several rounds of
basecamp golf! |
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Mary doing her laundry
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Fiona getting out of our tent
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When we got back to basecamp after our
summit push, Mary came to the base of the
icefall and climbed up the first section
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Paul and Mary at the start of the icefall |
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Paul giving Danuru a big tip - Danuru gave
his oxygen to Paul on his way down from the
South Summit
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The view outside from Dennis' tent
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