Expedition Advice

The summit bid is on …keep you posted. “Somehow” My time has come to say goodbye as my Mt Everest summit awaits at 29.089ft  (8848m).But before I go today its hard not to look back and remember fondly those early days roaming the Irish hills as a young cub-scout unconsciously laying a great foundation, my…

From my great highs to disturbing lows as Mt Everest takes another life… Mt Everest bad weather continues, & it’s relentless in dishing me out all it has to offer, So may 5th my plan this morning in to head straight back into the loins jaws to the north Coll 7090mts by now I’ve faced…

THE AFTERMATH So super 40winks – 11 hours to be exact and feeling great – spent the day re-hydrating. Meeting today went well with a bag of dolly mixture ideas to the way forward. So what’s agreed is spend today the 3rd and 4th May here at ABC 6400mts and I’m heading back up onto…

NORTH COLL Straight to bed, now bed on the north coll consists of sleeping directly on the ice with a thin foam mat as your only saving grace, between high winds and absolutely no sleep temp on the north col dropped that night to a savage -20 man it was so cold and with a…

ABC to NORTH COLL MT EVEREST 7090mts May Day today and that’s the end of Ireland’s April showers. Yeah rite. Good nights sleep up at 7am here at ABC PORRIDGE again black tea and 2 fried eggs. Packed up all my super high altitude expedition kit made up of Head down Windstopper mountain hardware pelican…

10 days later and I’m back and I’ve been fighting tooth & nail been hard but great.. Here’s what I’ve been up to guys. BASECAMP to interim CAMP & onto ADVANCE base camp. Up earlyish good solid breakfast porridge & fried eggs .. today I feel well rested and ready to restart back into Mt…

Next leg of MT EVEREST summit bid itinerary So I’ve come to the next major step in my Mt Everest summit bud itinerary. But before I do the strangest thing happened today, I forgot to say earlier that mt Everest base camp is a totally restricted area it’s quarantined and only mt Everest summit team…

True SPORTING HEROS in my life. As I said yesterday life on mt Everest affords you the time undivided to reflect on things that have shaped you as an individual and over the last few days I’ve done so unconsciously and sport for me has served me well, in times of darkness and disappear its…

24-25th April BACK IN BASE CAMP VERY SICK TONIGHT. OH HOW MT EVEREST CAN THROW YOU A CURVE BALL .. When you least expect it. So as you Know I arrived into ABC in great form and oh how that changed over night. I woke up yesterday the 24th ” I apologise to you all…

23th April from Interim camp 5700mts to Advance base camp 6445mts. Early morning rise 7am great night sleep. Breakfast this morning was very simple porraige &  black tea .. Today I’m feeling super and in great form (oh what 12hrs of good sleep can do for you). Leaving interim camp this morning it was approx…