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Advance Base Camp (Everest)


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Because of his health issues, Fiennes was well-placed to appreciate the difference in altitude between the Advance Base Camp in Tibet (at 6500 metres) and the Nepalese Everest Base Camp (5,380 metres), calling the latter "a far healthier launch point for the summit.
Anker and his team set out from the advance base camp on Sunday and hope to reach the 29,035-foot peak around June 14, according to dispatches on their Web site.
The manager added: 'All the people in the team would have taken Sherpa services up to the base camp and advance base camp and, beyond that, they would do it independently.
Kieron made it back to his advance base camp, only to be told a climber he had been talking to hours earlier had died.
We're very happy, we're very tired, but we're glad that it was such a fun, exciting climb," said Viesturs, soon after returning to advance base camp.
The massive avalanche struck the climbers above Advance Base Camp on the upper slopes of the mountain, according to MountainZone.
He made it to the advance base camp, or ABC, at 6,400m, but was unable to move on to the next stage, the north col.
During the expedition TDK GLOBAL CLASS modems and Combo LAN/modems will transmit still images, video and email over the Internet from the expedition's Advance Base Camp situated on the East Rongbuk glacier at 21,500 feet above sea level.

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