Monday June 27, 2005

Rope leader returned from Mt. Everest Expedition

This is what my Rope leader of 180th Basic Mountaineering Course had to say when he returned from Mt. Everest Expedition this year. We all are praying for his fast recovery...
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hi everybody
           it's been quite sometime even after icame back from everest that i wrote something here. ofcource everybody knows that my right hand is temporarily unservicible, but my left hand is still fine. onlything i am quite slow with it. anyway, by now everybody is quite aware abt our expedition thru media. i along with three other members tried the peak on 21st. we cud reach only upto 8400mtr and had come back because of technical problem.the oxygen system we were using was not suitable for heigh altitude. i was forced to change my mask thrice. even then i cud not fix it. in that process my inner gloves become cold and next day morning ifound my fingers are numb. 4 of us beaten back by luck rather i shud say we came back because of inexperience. otherwise we were fighting fit and till we started and faced the problem we were determind to do it. but our bitter experience paid dearly to the team. we changed the oxygen system of our second team to the traditional one and on !
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 advice few more things were also sorted out. the second team summited smootly. but sqn/ldr chaitanya caught into blizard while coming back and got lost on the way back camp 3. mountain is merciless sometime.      
     rt now i have 3rd degree frost bite in all the fingers of my rt hand. middle and ring finger are little serious. so i may have to lose some part of those two fingers. otherwise i am fine. presently getting treated in air force stn hindon and admitted in 11 af hospital in the same place. next time i shall try to postthe phone no of the hospital itself. bye and take care guys.
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