Timeline: Jon Krakauer's Mount Everest Expedition

Mar 20, 1996

March, Landed at Kathmandu, India

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Mar 22, 1996

Recieve base camp information

Mar 24, 1996

reports of severe weather, trip delayed

Mar 27, 1996

working out final details of the trip

Mar 31, 1996

the journey began

Apr 5, 1996

reached 9,200 ft

Apr 6, 1996

reached 16,000ft, Khumba Glacier,12 miles of ice

Apr 8, 1996

Reached 16,200 ft, The Lobuje

The lobuje is a mountain peak that consists of two different summits.A continuous ridge connects them but there is a considerably big amount of space between the two. It is an attractive mountain that offers loads of routes and potential routes as well. you would have to go through deep, snowy slope to get to the top and on most occasions the mountain is climbed on thesummit ridge only as far as a subsidiary snow summit.

Apr 9, 1996

Arrived at Base Camp and had a Puja Ceremony

At Mount Everest some groups do a Puja ceremony. It is to invites blessing for the expedition. The ceremony is officiated with a Lama or two or more monks in front of an altar built of stone. Those who preform ask the gods for good fortune for both the sherpas and climbers as they attempt to summit the mountain. in front of an altar offerings are made to the gods. Juniper is burned in front of the altar while the equipement is blessed. As prayer flags are strewn, a chant is going around.

Apr 12, 1996

Reached Everest base camp, 17,600 ft

Apr 12, 1996

Resting after passage through Ice Fall

Apr 13, 1996

Spent the night at Camp 1

Apr 13, 1996

Descent to the Lower Ice Fall

Apr 19, 1996

Team acclimatizes at Camp 2

Apr 23, 1996

Nawang sick with edema, very sick

Edema is an abnormally accumulation of fluid beneath the skin or under one or two cavities of the body. It mostly occurs in the feet, hands, ankles and legs that may also involve the entire body. A sign of edema is that if you have stretched and shiny skin over the swollen area. Another is that if you push gentaly on the infected area for 10 to 15 minutes and it leaves a dimple in the skin you may have edema. Edema can be a very dangerous to people and cause swollen skin.

Apr 25, 1996

Guide ropes need to be fixed at South Col

Apr 26, 1996

Nawang rushed to Kathmandu

Kathmandu is the capitol and the most largest meropolitian city of Nepal. The city is situated in Kathmandu Valley, which also contains two other cities. The city stands at an elevation of about 1400m in valley surrounded by four major mountains. Most people here speek Nepali but a great many speek Newar.

Apr 28, 1996

Team now stable with oxygen at camp 3, 24,000 ft

May 1, 1996

Descended back to base camp 2 for a rest

May 6, 1996

Fischer's crew is looking strong

May 7, 1996

Resting at camp 2

Everest base camps are used by mountain climbers to rest and gather thing up. Supplies are carried up the mountain by sherpas or porters, with the help of animals. Climbers typically rest at base camps for several days for accumulization, to reduce the ricks and severity of altitude sickness. These are grouped in long lines that supply food, blankets and light.

May 8, 1996