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Co-ordinator: Carole Smithies

Please join me on my virtual High Camp.  Why Everest?  Well that comes later.  First in these CV19 days, we have to have a set of rules for all participants, members and guests alike.  So:

• You must remain at your own home.
• You must camp or bivvy in your own garden overnight.  If you don’t have a garden, you must bivvy in your sitting room.
• Climbers are encouraged to portaledge on their house, suspend themselves from the chimney, sleep on the roof or whatever.
• You must not sleep in your own bed, but that does not give you licence to sleep in someone else’s.
• You must register your intent to join the Everest High Camp before the 5^th September.
• You must take a photo of your tent/bivvy/portaledge on the day and send it to the leader.
• You must notify the leader of the names of all individuals who take part in your camp/bivvy.
• You must tell the leader the height in feet of your home above sea level.
• You must join the leader for wine or whatever takes your fancy, at nine. 

And now Everest.  When I began to think about this I thought, if I knew how high people camp, i.e. their height above sea level [HASL] then I could work out our total HASL.  And maybe we could aim for say Scafell Pike or even Ben Nevis.  [If you’re wondering why feet not metres…  Well, that’s because having climbed all the 3000ft Munros, I was horrified to discover I was then listed in the first metric edition of Munro’s Tables of 3000-Feet Mountains of Scotland.  914 metres indeed Grrr!] 

Now I’ve really no idea what the average house HASL is in England or the UK and even if I did, it wouldn’t help given the uneven spread of the Club’s members.  But if we say 500 feet, that would mean 6 people camping for Scafell, 9 for the Ben and Mont Blanc would need 32.  But hey, let’s go for broke and climb Everest together. 

So, come on all of you, bring out your bivvy bags, tidy your tents and pick up your portaledges and join me as we head off to Everest.  We’ll need a lot of people to get to the top, so please encourage your families and friends to join in.  But strictly within the virtual HC rules of course, so they must bivvy/camp in their own home or garden.  And by the way, I’ve high hopes of mega contributions from some of our overseas members.  Dave, Matthew, Greg, Neil etc. are you listening? 

Wine at nine will include toasts to the future of the Club, to the continued good health of its members and, if past High Camps are anything to go by, to a whole lot more.  I’m hoping for a great turnout, so please do let me know if you’ll be coming on this very special High Camp.

Co-ordinator: Carole Smithies

Please join me on my virtual High Camp.  Why Everest?  Well that comes later.  First in these CV19 days, we have to have a set of rules for all participants, members and guests alike.  So:

• You must remain at your own home.
• You must camp or bivvy in your own garden overnight.  If you don’t have a garden, you must bivvy in your sitting room.
• Climbers are encouraged to portaledge on their house, suspend themselves from the chimney, sleep on the roof or whatever.
• You must not sleep in your own bed, but that does not give you licence to sleep in someone else’s.
• You must register your intent to join the Everest High Camp before the 5^th September.
• You must take a photo of your tent/bivvy/portaledge on the day and send it to the leader.
• You must notify the leader of the names of all individuals who take part in your camp/bivvy.
• You must tell the leader the height in feet of your home above sea level.
• You must join the leader for wine or whatever takes your fancy, at nine. 

And now Everest.  When I began to think about this I thought, if I knew how high people camp, i.e. their height above sea level [HASL] then I could work out our total HASL.  And maybe we could aim for say Scafell Pike or even Ben Nevis.  [If you’re wondering why feet not metres…  Well, that’s because having climbed all the 3000ft Munros, I was horrified to discover I was then listed in the first metric edition of Munro’s Tables of 3000-Feet Mountains of Scotland.  914 metres indeed Grrr!] 

Now I’ve really no idea what the average house HASL is in England or the UK and even if I did, it wouldn’t help given the uneven spread of the Club’s members.  But if we say 500 feet, that would mean 6 people camping for Scafell, 9 for the Ben and Mont Blanc would need 32.  But hey, let’s go for broke and climb Everest together. 

So, come on all of you, bring out your bivvy bags, tidy your tents and pick up your portaledges and join me as we head off to Everest.  We’ll need a lot of people to get to the top, so please encourage your families and friends to join in.  But strictly within the virtual HC rules of course, so they must bivvy/camp in their own home or garden.  And by the way, I’ve high hopes of mega contributions from some of our overseas members.  Dave, Matthew, Greg, Neil etc. are you listening? 

Wine at nine will include toasts to the future of the Club, to the continued good health of its members and, if past High Camps are anything to go by, to a whole lot more.  I’m hoping for a great turnout, so please do let me know if you’ll be coming on this very special High Camp.

Co-ordinator: Andy Llewellyn

Co-ordinator: Andy Llewellyn

Co-ordinators: Pete Adams & Gary Bunting

Co-ordinators: Pete Adams & Gary Bunting

Co-ordinator: David Nightingale

Co-ordinator: David Nightingale