Four Against Everest: Expedition Details

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Expedition Details: Gear, Schedule, and Costs

Taking a page from Sayre's primer, here outlined is our complete listing of personal and group gear, sufficient we hope both to get us to the mountain in superalpine style, and to allow us a reasonable chance to climb her.

Personal Gear List...........Group Gear List

Glacier Travel:
Shell jacket and pants	2.0 kg
Pile Jacket and Pants	1.0 kg
Set long white underwear	0.5 kg
Extra first layers	0.3 kg
Four pair socks	0.3 kg
gloves, mittens, shells	0.4 kg
Sun hat, pile hat, glacier glasses	0.2 kg
Double mountaineering boots	3.0 kg
Backpack	4.0 kg
Personal Technical Gear:
Harness, 4 biners, 2 slings	0.7 kg
Mountaineering ice axe	0.6 kg
ascender, prussiks, picket, screw	1.0 kg
crampons	1.0 kg
helmet	0.3 kg
Altitude Gear:
Down parka	0.6 kg
Down pants	0.3 kg
Overboots, goggles, face mask	0.9 kg
Sleeping:
Sleeping bag, VBL	2.0 kg
Two pads	1.0 kg
Bivy sack	0.6 kg
Miscellaneous:
Camera, Film, batteries	1.0 kg
Ditty Kit	0.7 kg
Mess Kit	0.5 kg
Hiking poles	1.0 kg
Headlamp/torch	0.3 kg
Unaccounted	4.0 kg

Tents:
MH Trango 4 ???	5.5 kg
Marmot Asylum ???	2.5 kg
Group Technical Gear:
2x200m 7mm fixed ropes	14.8 kg
2x50m 9mm climbing ropes	5.2 kg
2 flukes, 2 pickets, 2 screws	2.0 kg
2 extra climbing axes	1.5 kg
Navigation:
2 GPS units	0.6 kg
100 willow wands	1.0 kg
2 mapsets & route photos	0.4 kg
Communication:
Satellite Phone, modem	2.0 kg
Apple 15" G4 laptop	2.9 kg
Brunton solar charger	2.0 kg
Filming:
2 Sony HDR-FX1 cameras	1.5 kg
Batteries, cassettes	1.5 kg
tripods, camera truck	2.5 kg
First Aid Kit:
Group, incl. pulse oximeter	2.0 kg
Cooking
2 liquid stoves, repair kit	1.2 kg
cook pots, utensils	2.0 kg
Food and fuel:
0.9 kg per person per day	108.0 kg
Sleds:
3 plastic sleds	1.5 kg

Personal Gear, each	28 kg
Group Gear	160 kg
Total Gear Weight, less clothing worn	230 kg
Imperial Units	508 lb

With this equipment, we hope to load 3 sleds with 50 kgs each, and thus carry 20kgs each on our backs down the West Rongbuk 15 kilometers toward the normal northside Everest Base Camp. We realize the glacier in places is too broken up for efficient travel by sled, so heavy double carries may at times be necessary. Our schedule is as follows:

Flights from the US to Katmandu and Lukla		by April 1
Lukla to Nepal Base Camp under Nup La	10 days	April 2-10
Climb Nup La and transport all gear onto Nup La	1 week	April 10-17
Nup La to Everest Base Camp on the Tibet side	5 days	April 17-22
Everest Base Camp to Advanced Base Camp	3 days	April 22-25
Camps on the North Col and North Face	5 days	April 25-30
Window of opportunity to strike for summit	2 weeks	May 1-15
Return to Nepal Base Camp	1 week	May 16-22
Return to Lukla and fly back to US	1 week	May 22-30

We expect the total expedition cost, including peak and trekking permits in Nepal and Tibet, incountry support, all food, and all flights, to be $50,000, or $12,500 per person. We expect to offset this cost, shared equally, through any sponsorships, grants, fundraising, and net film revenues. Also, in everything we do throughout this expedition, we will follow strict leave-no-trace ethics as described here.

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