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Fresh video of team Miura starting their summit bid and heading through the icefall |
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Fresh Video: Team Miura starts summit bid
09:56 a.m. EDT May 12, 2003
While most teams have aborted their summit bid and gone down to base camp, team Miura is on the go. Just yesterday they left base camp, headed up to Camp II, 6400m, and sent back fresh video from their trip
This team is really following in the footsteps of Hillary; they have planned on spending a night above Camp IV, 7984m, in Camp V, 8450m. Before their summit push, Hillary and Tenzing spent the night at 8500m too. This spot is just above the Balcony, 8400m, that lies above a steep, narrow couloir.
Gota Miura, "The ABC (advance Base Camp - C2) is like a ghost town at the moment. Only group remaining except us is Ken Noguchi's Clean up Expedition. Right now, weather at C2 is pretty stable and we hope for good stabilized weather for summit attempt. Everyone is fine and eating well!"
Their tentative summit push schedule:
May/13 – Camp II stay, 6450m
May/14 – Camp III, 7300m
May/15 – Camp IV, 7984m
May/16 – Camp V, 8450m
May/17 - Summit attempt, 8848m
May/18 – Camp IV, 7984m
May/19 – Camp IV → Camp II
May/20 - back to Base Camp
The summit team is made up of father/son duo
While most teams on the South Side have gone down and aborted their summit attempts, Team Miura is on the go. Just yesterday they left base camp, headed up to Camp II, 6400m, and sent back fresh video from their trip.
Yuichiro & Gota Miura, and Muraguchi. Yuichiro, who is 70 years old, has the opportunity to become the oldest man to climb Everest this season. This is Yuichiro’s second time on Everest, the first being 33 years ago when he skied down from the South Col, 7900m, with the use of a parachute and became, “The man who skied down Everest.”
The team's website is one of the coolest this year, with position maps and biometric data on the climbers - very innovative.
Picture and video courtesy of our friends at Miura Dolphins Co., Ltd.
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