Category: Equipment and Gear
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Merry Christmas: Packing for the GT – Just how light is right?
“Ho, ho, ho”, or should it be “groan, groan, groan” as our bodies struggle to digest that enormous amount of food that is traditional to consume at this time of year. I have been training hard for the past few weeks, however with the parties, dinners, lunches, drinks etc, my self-discipline has slipped with what I have…
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Communication and electronics on Everest
I just arrived in Kathmandu!! It was very nice to see friends and family at the airport this morning. I was feeling in a generous spirit so I shouted the coffee at Starbucks. This caught a number of people by surprise as I am quite tightfisted (my great grand parents were from Scotland). It’s always…
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Communicating from Mt Everest
In 1924, George Mallory and Andrew Irvine disappeared high on the North Ridge of Mt Everest, never to be seen (alive) again. A search party was dispatched to their high camp to look for the two lost climbers. The only form of communications available between the team members lower on the mountain and the climbers…
Grant 'Axe' Rawlinson 