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Home / Himalayas

2011-05-12

CWMS gets Team to the summit of Everest

At 6:44 am, local Nepal time on May 12, Canada West Mountain School Team Climber Bill Borger stood on the South Summit of Mt Everest, along with Then Dorjee Sherpa, […]

Article by Brian Jones / Mt Everest Expeditions, Mt. Everest 2011, News Update / Bill Borger, CWMS, Himalayas, John Furneaux, Khumbu, Mount Everest, Mt Everest, Nepal

2011-05-10

Moving to Camp 4

Bill and Then Dorjee Sherpa are heading up from C3 to C4 today. This is the highest camp on the Southeast Ridge route of Mt Everest at 7,950 meters. After […]

Article by Brian Jones / Mt. Everest 2011, News Update / Bill Borger, CWMS, Himalayas, John Furneaux, Mt Everest, Return to www.themountainschool.com

2011-05-08

Summit bid underway!

The Team is moving up the mountain today on their summit bid! John and Bill have left Base Camp and are heading up to Camp 2 for today, May 8. […]

Article by Brian Jones / Mt. Everest 2011, News Update / Bill Borger, CWMS, Himalayas, John Furneaux, Mt Everest, Return to www.themountainschool.com

2011-05-04

Camp 3

April 30 saw John and Bill back up to Camp 2 for a 2nd round of acclimatization. They spent 4 days there, with one day a climb up to C3 […]

Article by Brian Jones / Mt. Everest 2011, News Update / Bill Borger, CWMS, Himalayas, John Furneaux, Mt Everest, Return to www.themountainschool.com

2011-04-24

Climb to Camp 2

John and Bill have had a chance to get up to Camp 2, now that their Puja ceremony has been completed on April 17. On April 22 they managed to […]

Article by Brian Jones / Mt. Everest 2011, News Update / Bill Borger, CWMS, Himalayas, John Furneaux, Mt Everest, Return to www.themountainschool.com

2011-04-15

Training climb on Lobuche

John and Bill had a great time on the approach into Base Camp, no issues with health or safety.They arrived on April 8th. After a couple of days they headed […]

Article by Brian Jones / Mt. Everest 2011, News Update / Bill Borger, CWMS, Himalayas, John Furneaux, Mt Everest, Return to www.themountainschool.com

2011-03-27

Mount Everest 2011 Expedition underway!

Our Mt Everest team for 2011: Bill Borger, team Climber; Bill is from Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Bill has climbed extensively in North and South America, as well as Europe. This […]

Article by Brian Jones / Mt. Everest 2011, News Update / Bill Borger, CWMS, Himalayas, John Furneaux, Mt Everest, Return to www.themountainschool.com

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