(Picture: river crossing en route to ABC)
We’re finally at Advanced Base Camp! At about 5,660m, our campsite is built on a ridge and it took us about 5 hours to trek here from “Intermediate Base Camp”, the point where a very rickety lorry dropped us off after a bumpy 40 minute ride from the Chinese Base Camp.
It started snowing towards the end of the trek towards Advanced Base Camp and we were delighted to see the familiar tents after a 5 hour trek, of which the last 2 hours were spent in the ill company of bad weather and rapidly falling temperatures. Much to our disappointment, it continued to snow throughout our first day at Advanced Base Camp, leaving us with nothing much to do other than to wait out the weather and get our new accommodations sorted out in the meantime as we adjusted to this new altitude.
The Singapore Women’s Everest Team formed in 2004 and aimed to send the first team of Singaporean women to the world’s highest peak. Following a rigorous 5 year training schedule, we successfully reached the summit of Mt. Everest in May 2009, placing 5 Singapore women on the top of the world.
