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

Issuma arrives in New York

May 20 - made New York from Brasil.   She is moored at the north end of the mooring field around 95th Street and the North River. In New York for a short period of R&R (rest and repairs).  Above are a couple of glimpses from the Henry Hudson parkway (commonly referred to incorrectly as the West Side Highway).  Below a shot from a spot perhaps near its "homeport" - Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, Canada.


UPDATE - HERE  is Richard's arrival post and de rigeur Statue of Liberty shot.

And HERE are shots aboard Issuma.

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: 

Spring Sale

Spring sale at the Friendship Trap Company

Strange beauty

Gulf oil spill at sunset.

Image: NY Times - Richard perry

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

Mother's Day Love Seat

Step 1: Concept

Step 2 - materials 

Step 3 - Awaiting the Day

Sunday, May 9, 2010

Shanghai Expo Fireworks Finale

They are psyched about the Shanghai World Expo in China.  Why, I don't know.  They're boring these world's fairs.  But the Chinese invented gun powder, you will recall.  And they love fireworks.  So here is the finale of the opening fireworks display last night.

Red's Eats

The late Times reporter and epicure R.W. Apple helped make it famous.  We stop across the way at Sproul's on the waterfront deck - where I am partial to the baked haddock sandwich - and the line is shorter.  Of course it's red's that's on the Boston Globe's map of best clam shacks HERE.  Their capsule review follows:


Red's Eats, Wicasset, Maine

Situated in an old-school trailer, this Wicasset shack is a Route 1 landmark famous for its lobster rolls which they maintain is created with an entire one-pound lobster. Best of all, Red's lobster roll isn't slathered with mayonaise (though you can get it on the side, along with melted butter), allowing diners to enjoy the true taste of Maine lobster. Generally regarded as the state's best roll of its kind.

Main St., Wiscasset, Maine

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)