Friday, April 22, 2011

Crevasses

Here is a picture of the bottom of the Khumbu ice fall (taken from Everest Base Camp) and a picture of the crevasse I fell into that was hidden by an innocent looking snow field above the Khumbu ice fall (see last image below)....the black eye of the glacier...although you cannot see, the crevasse appeared to dropped off into infinite:



Here are some more pictures of ladders and ladder crossings.  Tha big ladder is the one that we detoured around:



Here is a picture of the Lhotse face and the ridge leading to the summitt of Mount Everest from Camp 1.  The snow field in the foreground is where I fell into the crevasse shown above:




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