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Dr. Brett Purvis.  Personal interview.  29 November 2017

Berg Adventures International.  Wally Berg, 2017, http://www.bergadventures.com/v3_main/about.php, accessed 28 November 2017

7 Things You Should Know About Mount Everest.  Jesse Greenspan, 2017, http://www.history.com/news/7-things-you-should-know-about-mount-everest, accessed 28 November 2017

Mt. Everest Base Camp.  Notebleu, https://www.rmiguides.com/himalaya/everest-trek 2017, 29 November 2017

How to measure a mountain: Everest height called into question. Cable news network, 2017, http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/21/asia/everest-height-dispute/index.html, accessed 30 November 2017

Notes
Interview
+ March of 2015
+ Not a lot of trash
+ Big groups, 13
+ Not many people climbed in 2015
+ Go up and down to train body
+ Wood burners/Generators
+ No meat
+ Cheapest is $60,000
+ Not safe
+ Need a permit
+ Lots of ups and downs
+ He didn't need a oxygen mask
+ Not many animals if any
+ Talked with locals

7 Things You Should Know About Mount Everest

+ Nobody knew Mount Everest was the tallest mountain until 1802
+ George Mallory might have got to the top before Hillary and Tenzing
+ George was a school teacher
+ Tenzing had almost summit once before
+ 240 people have died on the mountain

How to measure a mountain: Everest height called into question

+ Everest is getting taller due to plates
+ cost 1.5 million to measure
+ hoping to have a team of 50

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Today we made plane reservation's and took it easy because of the long journey.

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Today was our first chance to summit, two nights at camp two, one night at camp three and a short night at south col, then we went up to the top,  it was beautiful and it looked like you could see forever.

This was a picture of two other people in our group

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We rested at base camp, some went down to lower elevations but we stayed because we were close to the day we were going to summit.

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We had our third rotation, two nights at camp one,one at camp two and one night at camp three.

On our way up I took this picture.

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We rested at base camp and I learned that they measure Mount Everest by placing checkpoint's on the mountain then use a GPS to locate the check points elevations.

This is a picture of scientist climbing the mountain placing the check points.

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We had our second rotation, one night at camp one, two nights at camp two and a day trip to camp three.

A picture of another group member climbing the  Lhotse Face.

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We had our first rotation, two nights at camp one and then three at camp two. We did this to build up our lung's so they could hold more oxygen during the summit.

This was at camp two.

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Our group got to camp 1  today and it was a long walk.

A picture of camp one

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The group leader's had a Buddhist ceremony called a pooja. After the ceremony we went into the ice fall. We also learned in 2011 they hauled out eight ton's of garbage, it was mostly stuff like oxygen tanks and they said if we didn't bring our stuff down we would lose four thousand dollars.

This was a picture of the ice fall.

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The project team arrives at base camp, we got our gear and extra clothing for the climb to the top.

This was a picture of base camp

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We started to climb to base camp taking our time to take in the great sight's and culture. We talked with many people along the way and learned a lot. Some of the questions I had before I went to Mount Everest were, how did the mountain get its name and I figured it out, Waugh named it after George Everest because he helped survey the mountain.  I also learned a lot more about Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay, they were the first to climb Mount Everest, for example Tenzing had already tried to summit.

I took this picture on the way to base camp.

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My friend and I arrive at the mountain, we could only see about half of it because of the cloud's but it was extremely tall. We learned a lot about the culture near the mountain. I was getting nerves because only about 20% of people make it to the top.

This is a post card I got and sent back to my family.