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As I have been saying, there are more camps on the way up to the summit. I had read abt that before and now I found a map that illustrates this very clearly.
The Base camp is at the foot of the whole Everest range but after it there are 4 more camps where the expedition stops to rest and recover before continuing to the summit.
Colonel said Nasir's team had gone further ahead of Geneva Spur when they got lost, that means they were located just after Camp 3...he called it the dead zone, is it because no communication is possible from that place? Maybe thats why they couldnt send the SOS?
The blog below describes the entire journey up to the summit starting from base camp...the blog has to be read from bottom up to follow the chronology of an Everest expedition.
http://exploreyourplanet2009.blogspot.com/
It seems from some of these blog photos that Gowariker has recreated some of the prayer structures from the actual Everest South base camp in Nepal... even though he did the shooting at Dokrani glacier in Uttarakhand, India.
