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|  04/04/09 |  Kay Mitchell
| Great Scott!
Caudwell Xtreme Everest wish to congratulate Mike and Denny Grocott on the birth of their first child - Scott Dylan.
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| | 03/09/08 | Kay Mitchell
| Xtreme excitement!
Friends of Caudwell Xtreme Everest may feel that the lack of changes on this website means that not much is happening. Happily that is not the case.
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| | 03/04/08 | Kay Mitchell
| Bambino Mackenney
We have had some great news this week. Mac Mackenney, our Expedition Manager, and his partner, Lisa, have had a new addition to the family.
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| | 11/12/07 | Kay Mitchell
| Royal Geographical Lecture
I have been spending the last couple of weeks finalising preparations for the Caudwell Xtreme Everest lecture at the Royal Geographical Society. The lecture, in conjunction with Linde Gas Therapeutics and BOC Medical, took place last week.
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| | 12/10/07 | Kay Mitchell
| Reflections
It has been a bit of a bizarre two weeks. A number of members of the core team went to Aviemore in Scotland last week to the World Wilderness Medicine conference.
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| | 15/09/07 | Kay Mitchell
| Insomnia!
This week saw Dan, Paula and myself at a Faithless concert in Brixton. We were dancing like lunatics to the track Insomnia.
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| | 03/08/07 | Kay Mitchell
| Nostalgia
I have been working on the first Caudwell Xtreme Everest reunion this week, and it has inspired me to reread a lot of the messages that people sent whilst we were out in Nepal.
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| | 03/08/07 | Kay Mitchell
| Footnote to Nostalgia blog
Radio 4 will feature a segment from this week's documentary about Caudwell Xtreme Everest in its Sunday evening programme "Pick of the Week" - 18.15 to 19.00, 5th August.
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| | 20/07/07 | Kay Mitchell
| Radio 4
It is 18.45 and I am still in the office in Archway. This is not because I am working overtime again, but because I have been using the scanner to help with my MSc.
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| 28/06/07 | Kay Mitchell
| Archway, London
I am back in the office, and trying to get used to living in London again. Having spent so much time looking forward to coming back to the UK, I am now missing Nepal, and all the people we spent time with out there. There is no pleasing some people!
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| 23/06/07 | Kay Mitchell
| Doha
I lied in my last blog. I have managed to get online in Doha airport, whilst waiting for our connecting flight to London.
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| 22/06/07 | Kay Mitchell
| Good News
Mac has returned with the last of our Sherpa team from Lukla. All the equipment is finally off the mountain, and we can get sorted for leaving for the UK.
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| 21/06/07 | Kay Mitchell
| Escape?
Mac is still in Lukla. Yet again the Caudwell Xtreme Everest logisitics team are being delayed by circumstances beyond their control.
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| 16/06/07 | Kay Mitchell
| Clean!
I am back in the Summit Hotel in Kathmandu, and revelling in the ability to feel clean every single day!
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| 09/06/07 | Kay Mitchell
| Kay's blog
The team are spread out over the Khumbu valley. Many are in Lukla hoping to fly to Kathmandu tomorrow. I am still in Namche with approximately 15 others, and Mac is in Pheriche.
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| 02/06/07 | Kay Mitchell
| Potential for Skipping!
Things appear to be going well with the packing, and Mike Grocott announced tonight at dinner that if they continue to go well, we might be able to leave on Monday!
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| | 27/05/07 | Kay Mitchell
| Testing Trek M
This is the last day of testing of trek teams for our Everest Base Camp staff. Trek M are working very hard on our behalf, in beautiful sunshine, which it makes it very warm in the laboratory tent.
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| | 20/05/07 | Kay Mitchell
| Water Carriers
The Caudwell Xtreme Everest Base Camp Lab staff have been constantly amazed at the hard work of our cook team.
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| | 29/04/07 | Kay Mitchell
| Nail file?
Trek E are continuing to test well. It has been sunnier this morning, which has been a relief to them.
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| | 27/04/07 | Kay Mitchell
| Thank Crunchie it is Friday
Today is Friday. Trek D arrived safe and sound, except for Geoff Hall, who is safe further down the trail. They completed their testing, and left very early this morning for Kala Patar and then Dingboche.
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| | 27/04/07 | Kay Mitchell
| The Sherpas on Everest
Avalanches kill more Himalayan climbers than any other hazard. The places where avalanches have been are sometimes marked by huge ice boulders making the debris flow.
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| | 23/04/07 | Kay Mitchell
| Clean!
It is Monday, and each Monday is partly a day off for us, so I have done some washing and had a shower! Hurrah! Trek C left this morning for Dingboche, and we expect Trek D tomorrow.
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| | 19/04/07 | Kay Mitchell
| BBC News reports
Friday is going to be busy day for Mike Grocott, our expedition leader. Radio Five Live and Breakfast TV news want live interviews, and then he may be appearing live on BBC News 24 and BBC radio as well.
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| | 16/04/07 | Kay Mitchell
| Radio Traffic
It is Monday, April 16th, and Trek A has left Everest Base Camp fro Dingboche, having completed almost all of their testing.
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| 12/04/07 | Kay Mitchell
| Hard Work?
Well, it is Thursday, and it has been very busy since I last Blogged. On Monday we had a Puja ceremony. Everyone in the group who had attended a Puja before said that they had never attended a Puja like it.
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| | 08/04/07 | Kay Mitchell
| Thank goodness for logistics
I am sitting in my office, listening to Miles Davies. You may think that I have miraculously transferred back to Archway, but in fact this is courtesy of the fantastic Logistics team that we have here.
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| | 04/04/07 | Kay Mitchell
| Divine scenery!
Today was divine. The weather was perfect, and Chris Imray and I ambled up from Pheriche to Lobuje. At one point along the route, we reached an elevation of 4425m, exactly half the height of Everest.
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| | 01/04/07 | Kay Mitchell
| On the trail again
It is Saturday 31st March, and the core team have reached the White Yak in Pheriche. The trek from Deboche was quite sedate, and there was lots of opportunity to stop at tea houses along the way, and drink lemon tea.
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| | 26/03/07 | Kay Mitchell
| Starting out on the trail
It is a week since we arrived in Nepal, and this is the first moment I have had to write a blog. I am sitting in the Sherwi Khangba Lodge in Namche Bazaar. where we will be starting testing the Xtreme Team tomorrow.
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| 10/03/07 | Kay Mitchell
| French Manicure
Seven days to go and I am feeling in the need of doing something girly before three and a half months of fleeces and thermals.
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| | 01/01/07 | Kay Mitchell
| Happy New Year
I cannot believe it is 2007. When I first got involved in this project at the beginning of 2004, 2007 seemed such a long way away!
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| | 04/12/06 | Kay Mitchell
| A gentle nudge?
And I thought it was only my sister that read the blog! Now I have had a gentle nudge from another trekker reminding me that I have not contributed to the blog for a while.
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| | 27/11/06 | Kay Mitchell
| Writer's blog!
I have been suffering from writer's block. I gather from the web that this is a common phenomenon with people who write blogs.
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| 15/11/06 | Kay Mitchell
| Sums
I always quite liked maths at school. There was a 'right answer'. Trigonometry was good, simultaneous equations did not phase me, and those things in brackets that I cannot remember the name of.
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| 06/11/06 | Kay Mitchell
| Meltdown
I am back after 7 weeks away, and already in a panic about leaving for Everest in March of next year.
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