Jamie Clarke’s Expedition Hanesbrands Everest Dispatch
April 19, 2010 – Surrounded by Avalanches at Everest Base Camp
Everest Base Camp is a noisy place. Living as we do on the Khumbu Glacier we get used to the creaks, groans and pops of the moving ice beneath us. During the long nights in our tents we frequently hear falling ice and rock from the steep mountain faces of Nuptse, Pumori and the West Shoulder of Everest.
In the past 24 hours we have also seen three impressive avalanches fall toward Base Camp. The beautiful, awe inspiring, but potentially disastrous power of nature is never far from our minds here at this small city on the glacier, Everest Base Camp.