May 30, 2012 | Mountaineering |
Yak & Yeti Hotel Kathmandu, Nepal May 31, 2012 Dear Family & Friends: Here is the speech I gave at the Mt. Everest Day Celebration. Fortunately, the Nepal Tourism Board taped the entire program. They are giving me a cd of the program before I head home. Bill...
May 29, 2012 | Mountaineering |
Yak & Yeti Hotel Kathmandu, Nepal May 30, 2012 Namaste Family & Friends: My bags have finally arrived from the North side. Yeaaa. Now I can book my flight home. My presentation at the Annual Mt. Everest Day celebration yesterday went really well. I had several...
May 28, 2012 | Mountaineering |
Yak & Yeti Hotel Kathmandu, Nepal May 28, 2012 Namaste Family & Friends: Tomorrow, the Government of Nepal Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation and the Nepal Tourism Board are sponsoring the 5th Annual International Sagarmatha (Mt. Everest) Day...
May 26, 2012 | Mountaineering |
Yak & Yeti Hotel Kathmandu May 26, 2012 Dear Family & Friends: I am back in Kathmandu waiting for my bags to arrive from the mountain. Two days ago, I submitted an audio report from a city in Tibet, but I guess it did not go through. Below is a transcription...
May 21, 2012 | Mountaineering |
Follow Bill’s progress in 3D. View the tracking map to see the journey so far and instructions on how to see Bill’s track. Audio transcript: “Hello everyone, it’s Bill Burke. I’m calling from Advanced Base Camp. I have to start with a...
May 19, 2012 | Mountaineering |
Bill just called from Camp 3. He made it to the “second step”, about 4 hours from the summit and turned around. He said the weather was horrible, wind blowing, snowing, miserable. He said he passed by a couple bodies and has decided it’s time to...
May 18, 2012 | Mountaineering |
Bill called tonight at 7 PM from Camp 2 as he was about to leave for Camp 3. It will probably take him 6 hours or so to get to Camp 3 and will call me again from there. He is not going to actually sleep at Camp 3 as weather is coming in and he wants to get ahead of...
May 15, 2012 | Mountaineering |
(Multiple gaps in audio…) From Bill’s wife Sharon- “A lot of the audio that Bill sent was not clear. Bill and Mingma called me earlier tonight to get the weather report. At first he said his plan was to try for the summit on the 20th, but after...
May 15, 2012 | Mountaineering |
Follow Bill’s progress in 3D. View the tracking map to see the journey so far and instructions on how to see Bill’s track.
May 14, 2012 | Mountaineering |
Follow Bill’s progress in 3D. View the tracking map to see the journey so far and instructions on how to see Bill’s track.
