Mar 21, 2017 | Mountaineering |
Pochara, Nepal March 20, 2017 Namaste Family & Friends: There I sat in the helicopter, hovering a few hundred feet above Burke-Khang Base Camp, negotiating the price for my return to safety, sanity and reality. In over four decades of practicing law all over the...
Mar 17, 2017 | Mountaineering |
March 17, 2017 From his daughter Lisa- These short messages came in this morning: Starting to snow just as we leave Im coming home. This morning I was dressed and ready to go up. Still no weather report from Fagin. I did one more check before we started up. It came....
Mar 16, 2017 | Mountaineering |
March 16, 2017 I am at Base Camp. Stunning beauty. Very cold & windy. No snow since Gokyo. Took 5 Sherpas 25 hours over 2 days to run lines from BC to C1. No internet & very little communication possible. Trying to get sat phones working. Love my team....
Mar 13, 2017 | Mountaineering |
March 13, 2017 Hi Everyone- This is Lisa, Bill’s daughter who does his posting for him. He is doing great and should be helicoptering into basecamp today. I am traveling so this post from March 11th is delayed a few days. Audio Dispatch from March 11th...
Mar 10, 2017 | Mountaineering |
Gokyo March 10, 2017 Namaste Family & Friends: My good friend, Alan Arnette, has just posted an article about my climb on his website. He asked some pretty searching questions about why I am here. The link is below, and I hope you will read it. If you are...
Mar 6, 2017 | Mountaineering |
Namche Bazar March 6, 2017 Namaste Family & Friends: Channeling a famous Beach Boys’ tune, I’m feeling the good vibrations about this trip. Everything seems to be functioning like clockwork, just as planned. On March 5, I was up at 5:30 am to get...