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Everest Base Camp  We spent our second day at the base camp. Whenever we raise our head, we sea the great Chomolungma opposite to us. Today we had a free day, as free as we hadn’t had for a while. We spent time at the base camp, and watched the Everest. In the evening we had a video-phone connection with Turkey, of course it was noon in Turkey. For us every activity like that is a big excitement. While the technical preparations for the connection continue, everybody begins adjusting their cloths and getting ready as to look as good as possible. Any kind of contact that we can make with Turkey is very valuable to us.
 Beside the video-phone connection, our main motivation source are the messages that we receive through our website. Everyday we read the new messages, and comment on them. It both cheers us up and makes us feel more responsible. We should continue to be very careful, orderly and systematic. Because this climb has really become a Turkey climb, we are a very big team...
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.jpg "Image") Everest North Base Camp (5200m) Foto: Mustafa Cihan Click on image to view |
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Everest Base Camp
 We arrived at the foot of Everest. We started our trip from Tingri, we moved on in an extraordinary geography. It’s not exactly like a desert, not exactly like a mountain, neither a plateau, a bit of each of it. Both high and desolate, now and then we passed over frozen rivers, we made a trip through a place where the time was stopped. The offroad vehicles went sometimes over ice, sometimes over rocky land, sometimes through water. Most of the time, Everest was opposite to us with all of its magnificence. At 5100 meters, we saw the Rongbuk Monastery that is the highest monastery in the world. Just after that, we passed by a sort of migratory market consisting of tent stores and tent hotels. A little further away we saw the base camp.  The camp is just at the foot of the North side of Everest, but it is sufficiently distanced to the high slopes of Everest. We came to the “2006 Turkish Everest Expedition” camping site, set up by the sherpas who arrived before us. Our base camp consists of a rather large kitchen tent, our dining tent, our office tent and little tents where the sherpas and us stay. As a first impression, we are all happy. We are here for several days, we’ll settle down and try to make the camp more like “our” camp.
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.jpg "Image") Everest and Cho OyuPhoto: Mustafa Cihan
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