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Winds Hamper Carney’s Everest Bid
Maegen Carney, a freeskier and psychotherapist from Boulder, Colorado,
decided not to make a bid for the Mount Everest summit last Tuesday.
In an online report, the 37-year-old skier and climber was said
to be making her way back to the Everest Base Camp with team member
Brad Johnson, while others elected to stay at Camp 2 to continue
to acclimatize.
High winds sandblasting
' We decided not to make our summit bid today
as the high winds persisted,' said Burger. 'We had a great climb
up the Lhotse Face yesterday. We managed to have a nice evening,
although in two tents two meters apart we had to communicate via
radio because it was just too difficult to get out and you can’t
hear from the winds.
'We made it to a 4am
weather forecast which concurred with our experience that the winds
were 50 to 60 knots. It was like being sandblasted, even with a
balaclava and glacier glasses or goggles on. So we decided to come
back down today and we managed to not get blown off the Lhotse Face
although it was difficult work.'
The team is currently hoping “for safer and better conditions. The
Nepalese Ministry of Tourism gives us 75 days to complete an expedition,
so that puts us into the middle of November, (which is) certainly
enough time.” There is no word on Carney’s plans once she reaches
Base Camp.
Life changing decision
Carney’s decision to climb Everest followed her bid to change her
life in 1999 after she and her brother were caught in an avalanche
in La Grave, France.
Carney won the 2002 World Free Skiing Championships. It was her
second world title in a row, following a 2001 World Extremes championship
in Tignes, France, and her fifth extreme ski contest win in the
past year.
[Source: Ski Press World]
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