Top of the World: Paul, Denise & team summit Everest

Paul & Denise Fejtek and  the Challenged Athletes Foundation team reached the summit of Mt. Everest.  with them were 11 Sherpa climbers!  All are back to safe ground now, they report here.

The Summit - Paul & Denise Fejtek at Everest

They did it and are back at 24,5000 - safe & warm?

Audio here:
http://fejteksevensummits.blogspot.com/2010/05/summit.html

Everest - it looks like an ant hill from the Space Station!

Outside magazine reports there are 1000 people on Mt. Everest. 中国人叫他珠穆朗玛峰。 60 summitted this weekend.  Paul and Denise Fejtel announce they are making their way up the mountain - committed to try for the summit.

Not to spoil the fun, but HERE is the famous British Medical Journal study on mortality on Everest 1921 - 2006.


For a tour of Base Camp: 

Everest - Camp 3 - 24,000 feet - 7 Summits for CAF

Paul, Denise & Co. are resting and re-oxgenating at Camp 2 21, 500, after return from Camp 3 - 24,000 - a successful climb of the Lhotse face.  The Sherpas have already delivered 48 canisters of oxygen to Camp 4, where they will be used for the summit assault.


Paul says 
"We're back at C2 after a long and difficult assault of the Lhotse Face yesterday! We reached our goal of getting to Camp 3 at 24,000 feet, which also marks the highest altitude we have ever climbed, surpassing the reach of all of the other Seven Summits including Mt. Aconcagua in the Andes. All of us would quickly agree that climbing such steep terrain at this level, or trying to do much of anything (without supplemental oxygen as we were doing) is agonizingly HARD! We did manage to snap this quick photo as we collapsed (with our jumars still attached to the fixed lines) just before reaching the tents at C3. Just beyond us in the photo is the "Yellow Band" and the "Geneva Spur" which we will be required to cross en route to C4 and the South Col."
Paul's  full report is here

At base camp: Mt. Everest 珠穆朗玛峰

珠穆朗玛峰 - Zhumulangma Feng - Pearl Peak to the Chinese.  Mount Everest to us.


Paul and Denise Fejtek are heading for the summit - their fifth - as part of the Challenged Athletes Foundation (Paul himself has limited use of one arm).  the plan is Seven Summits - the highest on each continent (Antarctica is next).  Here  is a shot from base camp.  Their site - Seven Summits for CAF is HERE (and on the blog list at the right)

Everest Summit Attempt for Challenged Athletes Foundation

Greg Hancock, who works with Marilyn for Parade, has joined an Everest project.  His goal is to reach the historic Mt. Everest base camp - 18,500 feet.   Some plan to attempt the summit.  Paul and Denise Fejtek are trying for the summit.  You can follow them on their blog Seven Summits for CAF.  An interview is below.
This site will through the magic of Google Earth show where on the mountain the trekkers are now.