Mera, Island, and Khumbu Circuit
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Day 13: Mera HC-Mera Central Summit (6461m)-Kongme Dingma |
| Mera summit map: Day 13 |
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| Day 13: Summit day We left high camp for the summit at 3am. This picture was taken after climbing up a snow slope to a plateau where we had a break. Mera central is consist of 2 humps seperated by a big crevasse. |
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| Day 13: Other climbers Looking back, we could see some other climbers moving up. We started rather late but had managed to pass almost all the other groups. |
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| Day 13: Eric and Assim Eric and Assim having an intimate chat. |
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| Day 13: At the summit of Mera central (6461m) We were lucky to have the heavy snow fall at Thangnak resulting a snow bridge at the side of the summit crevasse. From the bridge was a 20-30m ice climb to the summit. |
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| Day 13: Assim and I Assim and I at the central summit. At the right are Nuptse, Everest, and Lhotse. |
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| Day 13: Yahoo! I thought it was a good idea to show some enthusiasm. |
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| Day 13: Mera North Taking a picture with the North summit. |
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| Day 13: Assim and Eric Eric and I were on the same rope with Assim, and we were the 2nd team to reach the summit on that day, half an hour behind a Japanese guy. |
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| Day 13: Assim and Everest Assim posing with Everest. |
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| Day 13: North east ridge Looking down at the north east ridge leading up to the summit. |
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| Day 13: North ridge The north ridge as seen from summit. The 2 small brown peaks behind the ridge is the high camp. |
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| Day 13: Everest, Lhotse and Nuptse Everest, Lhotse and Nuptse viewed from Mera central. |
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| Day 13: Group summit photo Meng Hui and Germaine arrived right after we worked our way down the summit hump, so we decided to climb back up to have a group photo with the SAC 40th Anniversary banner. |
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| Day 13: Group photo with Dal Bardor Another one with Dal Bardor. |
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| Pano: Mera central summit looking north From left: north-west, north (1/2), north-east. Visible mountains: Pumori, Nuptse, Everest, Lhotse, Peak 41, Baruntse, Makalu, Chamlang, Kangchengjunga. |
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