ISLAND PEAK BASE CAMP

< Newer | Older > Sun, 10/21/2007 - 09:14 — kade

Have now arrived at island peak base at 5090m, been a beautiful day and its been a long walk from dingboche to here. not steep just long and upward walk which after 6 hours gets on u a bit. now its rest, sleep, we have a half day tommorrow then in the after noon we climb to high camp which will be exhausting to 5700m then tuesday morning 3am nepal time we leave 4 high camp for summit - all fingers crossed atm that I have enough energy.

base camp is full of rock, stone and covered in little brown grass and snow everywhere. we have mountains all round us and looking up to the summit of island peak looks to high to climb...haha.

all is well but and I’m feeling good just tired. the nxt 3 days will certainly be a huge test. looking forward to it.

cheers kade

ps. hi hillary n family welcome online, hope your enjoying the journey.

karen - great to hear your voice y'day. so good to hear u, not long now b4 I’m home.

simone - thankyou for your msgs and admin of this site, ur the best.

to all family n friends thanku 4 ur support, been great.

Messages

FANTASTIC EFFORT

Simone — Mon, 10/22/2007 - 03:02

Kade, what an awesome effort!! Great achievement. Just take one step at a time and just do your best. Good luck for your summit attempt, we are all watching in anticipation. Your doing fantastic job and holding up well in the elements!! Go for it!!!Remember our karate training "Keep an Open mind" and “Move and the way will open”. Simone xxxx

Kade

hilary — Mon, 10/22/2007 - 06:25

Hi Kade,

We are really enjoying your journey, you provide such a descriptive and fascinating account of your adventures. We have shared it with lots of other people, including many year 7 students at Georgia's school!! You will be quite famous by the time that you return!! Good luck with the climb on Tuesday we will be thinking of you and willing you on.

Take care and stay safe,

Hil, Stew, Alex and Georgia

Good Luck Tommorrow

kand2412 — Mon, 10/22/2007 - 07:33

Hi u....

Congratulations again on reaching base camp.....we're all really proud of you for hanging in there! You've shown great courage and discipline to achieve your goals.

Good Luck tommorrow....you're almost there.

I was reading one of Taloeffler's postings which referred to a definition of discipline as "bravery plus gentleness". TA talked about needing discipline to make things happen including routine and the regular invocation of courage to keep things moving forward and in perspective. TA also talked about too much structure or too hard a structured belies the gentleness and how important it is to find some middle ground between the two. I found this interesting and insightful in that if you push yourself too hard in an attempt to get to the top you miss the experience, the beauty of the things and those around you and the struggle of the journey.

So while you're making that final climb, remember to take a moment, look around you (without falling off the side or tripping on your sandles) and see the beauty and the bravery that surrounds you and that is within you.

Philosophical enough for you.....

Can't wait till you get home....I'm counting down the sleeps.

Take Care, do the best you can & try to enjoy what you have achieved.

KA
xoxo

craig

brian — Tue, 10/23/2007 - 05:51

gidday spudly sheeds here hope alls going well its pretty gutsy & inspiring stuff your doing and i,m totally awstruck at the magnitude& toughness of the treck . i dont think i could climb mt dame edna everidge sorry mt everest my mistake there the same thing anyway twin peaks & a bit hairy at base camp.donna, callum & tommy boy send their luv and a half eaton timtam and callum says keep on going knackers.before i go just remember what i told you dont peak to early & if you see a yeti just play peak a boo [ lame joke i know ] anyway the yeti is probably tim healy with his shirt off . cheers & all the best we will see you on the other side . [this message will self destruct ].