In March 2006, Paul Adler and Fiona Adler left for their attempt to climb Mount Everest.
We posted live updates here throughout our climb,
as well as during the final stages of our preparation.
We hope that this helped our friends, family and other interested
parties to experience the adventure with us along the way.
Most of these photographs are from Julie Smith who summited on the same
day we were climbing (our camera batteries
froze so we only got the two photos of Fiona
on the summit).
The sun creeping up at around 5:15am (by now
we'd already been climbing for nearly 8
hours in the dark)
Some of the first views of the landscape
around us
The sun hitting some of the nearby peaks
The shadow of Mt Everest on the clouds below
The Summit Ridge (taken from the South
Summit)
Surrounding mountains
Looking towards the Tibetan mountains
The final part of the climb showing Hilary's
Step
A climber on top of Hilary's Step
The surrounding view
It was amazing to think that we'd been
looking up at many of these peaks for so
long and now we were so far above them
More views
The final part of the summit ridge
Looking back towards the South Summit
From the summit looking down toward Tibet -
you can see the track used by climbers from
the North side
More views
More views
Looking back down the summit ridge - the
people in the distance are Mingma and Fiona
Looking back at the South Summit
Looking down from the South Summit to the
South Col - camp 4 is just near the small
slightly darker circle down there
More views
Fiona on the summit of Mount Everest -
surrounded by prayer flags that the Sherpas
often bring up
And again, Fiona on the summit - this time
with the mask off
Back down in basecamp after being served a
special cake to celebrate the climb
It was truly amazing how Pemba cooked this
in the most basic of kitchens
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