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It is about two weeks from now to the departure date of Rob Chang and his team's journey to the summit of Mt. Everest (29,035 feet or 8848 m), the highest point on earth!
Rob, a local climber in the Bay Area, will be the leader of this trekking team. This is really inspiring to our Bay Area Chinese community, as Rob himself told us that he has Chinese origin.
Here we would like to invite you participate our toothbrush drive in support of Rob and his team delivering toothbrushes to Namche Dental Clinic in Nepal.
Moderators of the 3 groups listed on BayareaDragon website, including NPhopper, bay_area_fun, and supertime, will be teaming up together to collect new and packaged toothbrushes from our group members. We will pass these donation items to Rob at his Everest send-off party on March 22.
If you'd like to make other kinds of contribution to Rob and his team, such as monetary support, gear/quipment support, clothing drive for Nepalese, please follow this link.
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Rob founded the CFAC (Climbing for a cure) in memory of his sister - Maria, who died from a rare form of cancer. The mission of CFAC is:
| Quote: | 1. To climb high peaks throughout the World's greatest mountain ranges to promote the prevention, education and support activities of our cancer project partners.
2. To inspire individuals at risk for cancer to seek proper diagnostic action - self-exams, scans or medical testing appropriate to their age and level of health.
3. Call to action for corporate and individual donors to support through monetary contributions our project partners. |
Fore more information about CFAC, please visit http://www.climbingforacure.org |
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I've collected 2 toothbrushes and $30 donations on saturday after our hiking trip. Hope those donation can be passed on to those who are in need of these items.
Thanks,
Li
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| Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 10:45 am Post subject: Re: Donation collected from Bay Area Fun Club |
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| eyesofhorus wrote: | | I've collected 2 toothbrushes and $30 donations on saturday after our hiking trip. Hope those donation can be passed on to those who are in need of these items. |
Li, thanks for collecting the toothbrushes and donations. Please write a check to "ClimbingForACure" for that $30, and I will pass them to Rob at his send-off party next week.
Thanks for all Bay_area_fun_club members for their support!
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| Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 11:48 am Post subject: Re: Donation collected from Bay Area Fun Club |
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thank you and members of bay_area_fun club very much for this support.
--James
| eyesofhorus wrote: | I've collected 2 toothbrushes and $30 donations on saturday after our hiking trip. Hope those donation can be passed on to those who are in need of these items.
Thanks,
Li |
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panweilin
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| Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 2:42 am Post subject: NPhopper donation |
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| I've collected a total of 2 toothbrushes and $11 donation from NBA fans on 3/14. Thanks for everyone's support to Rob's team!
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| Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 6:16 pm Post subject: 大陆和台湾女子登山好手将联手攀登珠峰 |
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为了纪念女性攀登珠穆朗玛峰三十周年，一支由两岸和日本女子登山好手，共同组成的攀登珠峰探险队在最近成军，一行九个人，将从三月二十五号到五月底之间，一起攀登世界最高峰。
据悉，这位将参与这项活动的台湾登山好手李美凉通过重重考验，才取得攀登珠穆朗玛峰的资格，她将在三月到六月间，与其它八名大陆和日本女性登山家，一起远征世界最高峰。台湾山河探险协会理事长徐海鹏介绍，李美凉爬六千到七千公尺的经验很多，七千到八千是个大考验，出发前她已在法国受训过，相信她已有非常好的机会可登顶。
珠穆朗玛峰海拔8848公尺，三十年前，大陆和日本的女子登山家成功攀登珠峰，首开女性登顶纪录，多年来台湾有四个人完成登顶的壮举，其中也有一位是女性。过去十年，李美凉在大陆、尼泊尔、阿拉斯加等地的高山，都留下足迹，这次如果登顶成功，将是台湾第二位成功登上珠峰的女性，也为两岸运动交流再添新页。
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| Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 8:35 pm Post subject: toothbrush donation from supertime group |
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| Allen has helped to collect 16 toothbrushes from supertime group during the hiking event. Thanks! We will pass all the donations to Rob tomorrow.
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| Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2005 10:13 pm Post subject: Rob's send-off party |
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James, Molly, and I came back from Rob's send-off pizza party tonight. We have delivered 30 toothbrushes and $100 donated by members from NPhopper, bay_area_fun_club, and supertime groups. Rob also mentioned some other donations have been made on their website (www.ClimbingForACure.org) from BayareaDragon registered users.
Here we would like to thank everyone for your donations to help improving the dental hygiene of Nepalese kids, and to support Rob's climbing team and their mission of cancer awareness.
After he comes back from Everest, Rob will give us a talk to share his climbing experience.
Rob, have a safe trip and a successful climb!!! We will see you in a couple of months.
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| Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2005 12:56 pm Post subject: Updates from Rob [25 Mar] |
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| Rob Chang wrote: | Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005
Subject: Off to Everest
Dear Friends and Family,
Once again the climbing season is upon us for Mount Everest. On March 26, 2005, I will be departing for the great kingdom of Nepal to attempt the highest peak on the globe yet again. This climb will consist of myself and 3 other climbers with one support person, a Base Camp Manager.
Our summit window will hopefully come around May 12th or later, so wish us luck. We will be having dispatches from the mountain and you may follow our progress at www.climbingforacure.org The site will be updated this coming week so be sure to check out the new layout. I will also be sending emails to my father, who in turn will forward them to this group to get you some real live updates that will be different from our journal. Our return date is targeted in the first week of June.
Thanks to all the supporters, sponsors, contributors and well wishers, we truly will make a great attempt to climb the highest peak on earth for cancer awareness!
Please be advised I won't be able to answer email except for emergency purposes and all phone contact will be suspended until my return.
Thank you very much,
Best Regards,
Robert Chang |
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| Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2005 10:01 am Post subject: Updates from Rob [29 Mar] |
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| Rob Chang wrote: | Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005
Saturday, march 26, 430am, I am up early to head to the airport, my load of six 70 pound duffles await in the garage for the long journey to Nepal. I have been very tired this week getting all our last minute preparations competed, in particular, our solar power system that just arrived on the 25th, but all is packed and nothing can stop us now.
At 8 am, my neighbor loads his truck up with my gear and his daughter and my dad head to the San Francisco Airport - we arrive and all my gear is off loaded - a few photos, a few hugs and my journey begins. Inside I am greeted by my mom and my best climbing partner's parents. They know the drill as this is my 6th time to the Himalaya. I get all my bags check to Katmandu. Extra baggage is $125 a bag x 4! almost double the price from 2003, fuel cost and bad tourism levels I guess. Paula and John show up. There is a Japanese drum troupe roaring away in the termial, giving me a surreal feeling that its almost like a thunder send off. Doug and Allyn, my best and trusted friends show up from Sacramento to well wish us, they each endow us with two kata scarves for safe travels. It feels very weird not to have them on board as they have been on all my trips to Nepal since 2000.
On the long flight over to Hong Kong (13 hours) I try to figure out new heart monitor watch. My neighbors around me watch me with some fascination to see what the heck I am strapping on my chest under my shirt. I figure out the basic functions, but after 3 hours for testing, according to the monitor, my heart stopped 4 times for more than 5 minutes... a double check of the instruction books says "user should first wet heart monitor strap for maximum transfer of data from body contact" alas, that explains the heart issue, it would be bad if my heart did indeed stop four times- and I plan to climb Everest in a few weeks.
During the flight, I asked for a special menu since I cannot have dairy foods, I end up being designated a vegetarian! Yikes, all of my meals, no meat! luckily I am able to fanagle an extra meal each eating time that has some real substance. I have ramen noodle with little beef franks in it for one snack, early in the morning, and it reminds me of someone special at home.
We finally make it to Bangkok and are headed to Katmandu. Today we will work on getting all our permits straight and meet some of our support Sherpas. Hopefully everything goes well. Paula, John and I are tired but are slowly catching up on our sleep. More soon.....
March 28, we continue to fly on - our short flight to Katmandu affords us with some comfort and the flight is not as crowded as our previous ones. We meet some of our past climbing community on the plane, including Vern Tejas, who we shared some story telling with last year on Denali. We speak about our teams and plans on the mountain and it starts feeling like we are going climbing.
Upon landing, we get our visas and I get a quick pass through immigration and expedite the loading of our bags. I am greeted by Apa Sherpa outside the doors of the airport and it feels great to see his smiling face and the excitement of the climb that is coming up.
John, Paula and I load into our mini-van where we are dropped off at our hotel in the Thamel district of Katmandu. Its back in the saddle again, going and doing shopping for last minute supplies, packing our climbing gear bags in rushed fashion to get them to the airport late that night so that we can get them sent up to Base Camp before we start our trek, business as usual on an Everest expedition.
We have a nice dinner with fellow climber Will Cross and later try out our laptops and some communication gear, with mixed results, but I finally figure out the bugs and head to bead at 1am. At 3. am I am awakened by competing roosters crowing away in the building 50 feet across from our rooms. At 430am dogs start barking in a repetitive fashion, and by 6am the birds and pigeons are singing out my window - how good it is to get a good night's rest back in Katmandu.
March 29, we finalize some of our trekking plans and finish up last minute elements of payments and logistics. In the afternoon we have a bit of time to do some work and shopping. We will do some filming and touristy stuff the next day and start to head to the mountain on the 31st. Everything to this point has gone pretty smoothly. |
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| Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2005 12:02 am Post subject: Updates from Rob [1 Apr] |
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| Rob Chang wrote: | Thursday, March 31
Nepal - Paula, John and Rob are on there way up to Lukla, a small village and the start point for the long trek into Everest Base Camp. The flight is a short and sweet one and we land on our first try. Anyone who has flown into Lukla knows that its one of the most exciting landings one can make on a small airstrip carved into a side of a mountain at 9300 feet. Since the runway terminates into the side of the mountain, there are no second takes for a bad landing, and our pilots make a perfect one. We are greeted by Apa Sherpa, our Sirdar and we take a time in a lodge to take in some tea.
We then head up the trail to the small village named Phakding. Here we stay the night at a nice lodge, have a good meal and rest for our long day of hiking that is in store for us.
Friday, April 1
We head off to Namche, the cultural center for the Sherpa people in the Himalaya. We stroll passed beautiful vistas and many tea houses, always appreciating all the smiling Nepali Sherpa children. A lunch in Jorsale fills our stomachs for the uphill climb of the Namche hill. A pretty steep climb of almost 2000 feet, it takes us above the 11,000 foot mark where we feel the air a bit thinner. We get our first glimpse of Everest from afar, and it still is a massive mountain from more that 30 miles away. We are in awe of the huge jet stream plumes of clouds blowing off the summit.
We all make it into Namche in good spirits and decide to take a rest day here to let our bodies adjust to our first good jump in altitude. We spend some time with Apa and his wife and Paula enjoys the Saturday market. This is a 5 century old Himalaya tradition in which many Tibetan traders brave the high passes over from Tibet to sell their wares everything from bootleg music CD's from China to yak and goat meat to live chickens every Saturday in Namche - its a transformation back into time to see.
We plan to move on in a couple days to Thame and Khumjung. |
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| Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2005 1:29 am Post subject: update from basecamp [10 Apr] |
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| Rob Chang wrote: | Hello, this is Rob Chang from Everest Base Camp. We apologize it has taken us so long to update, but our journey has been long, but we are happy to report climber John Gray, Base Camp Manager Paula Stout and myself are finally here and are doing well.
A short update.
April 3-5
After Namche, Paula Stout went out to Thame while Rob and John ventured to Khumjung. We all had a great time basking in the great weather and enjoying the great views of Ama Dablam and the greater Himalaya. Paula had a special time in Thame with Apa Sherpa and his wife at their lodge and she was blessed at the monastery there in Thame. John and I had a great few rest days and were getting antsy to just head up higher to get closer to the mountain.
We all have been greatly enjoying staying in tea houses rather than tenting, as being indoors and off the ground has helped our sleep and has kept us healthier and better rested than in past expeditions here. Of course, once we are in Base Camp, the real deal begins.
During the trek, we have all learned to really watch how much we eat on our lunch breaks, at one time, I ate 11 momos, (they are like pot stickers or vegetable type dumplings) and then had only 1/2 an hour to rest before we began hiking again. It was hard to hike on the full stomach to say the least above 10.000 feet.
On April 5, we pulled into Tengboche, where the large monastery lies and we toured around and took in the small museum and actually viewed inside the main monastery. It is an amazing view to see such a testament of a living culture and to see how deep Buddhism lies in the Himalaya.
April 6 we headed to the village of Dingboche where the air definitely got thinner to around 14,000 feet. We have been meeting many other teams that are climbing Everest this year. From Spain, to the Czech Republic to Korea, it appears all corners of the globe are represented.
April 7 and 8 - We hiked up a few steep hills and found ourselves at the small outpost called Lobuche at 16,000+ feet. On the way up, we stopped at the Climbers Memorial where there are many stone memorials commemorating the climbers lost to climbing and trekking here in the Himalaya. As climbers, it is a very solemn place as there are very notable names carved here - illustrating truly how mortal we are when we are here attempting to climb the highest peaks on earth.
The small memorial I had left for my sister that the monks at Tengboche had let me leave a few years back, was still in a small pile after many seasons. A few tears shed, and I left a very small stone my mother had given me to leave here for her, perhaps for her to find some more grace and peace in her soul in knowing my sister's spirit is truly here - as I have felt it many times trekking.
On April 9, we left Lobuche and did the long and hard hike into Base Camp. We pulled in early afternoon and found that Apa and our Sherpa and Cook Staff from Asian Trekking had done a great job in setting up our camp in a great location as well as having our own tents, mess tents, toilet tents, and even our shower tent all set iup.
We met our fellow permit sharees, Will Cross and Julie Smith who are sharing our logistics here in Base Camp. They are great company and we have lunch and dinner and talk climibing and trekking into the early evening.
April 10 we awake to high winds and cold temps, but today is Puja day! This is a traditional ceremony where we bring in a Buddhist Llama and spend the morning blessing our gear, burning juniper, throwing rice and flour as offerings to the spirits, as well as eating and offering cookies, sweets, fruits and many other items. The Sherpas have made a stone alter that all these items are presented upon, and then after many chants, they errect a large lodge pole almost 15 feet tall that span many colorful prayer flags in five directions, some spanning over 75 feet in length. It is spiritual to say the least.
And of course I forgot to mention we drink some Chhang, which is Nepali rice millet beer home brewed here in Base Camp and a can of beer for good luck (though we only really sipped a little as being at 17,600 feet definitely isn't a good place to have a happy hour).
Tomorrow we head into the Khumbu Ice Fall for the first time. We have seen a huge avalanche right off the shoulder of one of the passes adjacent to the mountain and are a little self-aware that this will be our first step into the climbing realm.
After the 11th, we plan to rest on the 12th and then plan to head up to Camp One on the 13th. Chuck and Dan are right behind us and will be here this we to join in on the climbing. |
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| Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2005 10:50 am Post subject: Updates from Base Camp [14 Apr] |
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| Rob Chang wrote: | A lot of activity here over the last week.
On the 11th, we headed up the ice fall for some training and had a good time going over the first four ladders. Finally getting our gear out and using our crampons and real equipment has transitioned our team from trekkers to climbers. The thin air and high winds kept our pace to a modest one, but we did indeed enjoy being in the climbing mode. Our Sherpas have been carrying loads up higher to Camps One and Two.
On the 12 and 13th we have rested up and organized our Base Camp into a nice place to exist, if there is such a thing at the toe of a huge glacier at 17,400 feet. Our Base Camp Manager Paula Stout has been working like a busy bee to get things in order, even as far at to pick-up up a shovel and do some "public works" activity in improving our entry way to our mess tent and to alleviate some of our glacial melt issues in camp that have made some puddles around my tent.Climbers Chuck and Dan arrived on the 13th with trekking group entow (all 19!) and now our climbing team is whole - the trekkers have gone back down valley having stayed only a few hours visit to see the grand view of the Khumbu Ice Fall.
Our meals have been great and we celebrated Paula's B-day with a grand cake that our cook made (which took 3 hrs. to bake). It was a fun filled evening.
There are around a confirmed 22 expeditions here in Base Camp and it shows. Some of the camps are very elaborate with huge mess tents and multi shower type facilities, yet ours is one of more rustic proportions, though we do have a shower tent and have a mens and ladies bathrooms to some extent. We are situated in a good spot, on the high ground compared to other camps so we don't have a lot of intrusive neighbors nor other team's outhouses nearby to fill our air with foul smell.
We all have been making good contact with fellow teams and plan to make some moves on the mountain in the next week or so to acclimatize better for higher trips to Camps One and Two. Our team is doing well and are in good spirits. |
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| Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2005 12:49 am Post subject: Apa Sherpa |
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| Mr. David Rohde of the New York Times has informed that he has authored an article in this Sunday's New York Times which highlights Apa Sherpa's attempt at 15 summits on Everest. As you know, Apa is Expedition Sirda on Rob's current expedition and is the current world record holder with 14 summits. Pick up a copy of the NY Times.
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