The night before we were due to take the bus in for its final brake recheck, we watched ‘Everest’, the movie. We were astounded to learn that Sir Edmund Hilary climbed everest the same year as our bus was made, 1953. It put it into perspective for us. The same technology that Edmund used to […]
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Camp 4 continued
Posted in Everest on Aug 17th, 2017
It took weeks to get the work on the axial finished. We were still in our friends sleep-out. It was early February. Phoenix and Izzy’s friends went back to school. I didn’t see any point in starting them and then pulling them out once the bus was finished,(would it ever be finished??). Plus I needed […]
Not possible….. Failed again. Thats not part of the plan. Anyone who has tried to get compliance will know that the modern braking machines are the absolute devil . After some quick re-adjustments at VINZ the brakes were now worse than ever.The inspector had given us 3 days to fix it otherwise we would have […]
After a sleepless night worrying about what could be wrong. ‘Maybe there was a fundamental flaw that can’t be fixed???’, ‘Maybe she’s just too old’??? We headed back to Hamilton to await our fate. Yes she failed and yes there was a list of things that needed to be fixed. An engineers report was needed […]
December 2016 The nerve racking day was finally upon us. We had to drive into Hamilton for Compliance. Over the Divvy and into Hamilton!! And once again I say ‘we’ when I really mean Johny.We had done our research and decided which testing station we should use. VINZ in Te Rapa were the lucky winners. […]
March 2016 I got sick of waiting for this bus to be finished, so decided it would be a fantastic idea to get a job at Mt Ruapehu. That should create enough pressure to get this project finished. I got the job and what it created was enormous amounts of night anxiety. I realised she […]
The best part about this story is the number of incredible people that just helped us out. It started with our next-door neighbour kindly letting us park our bus on his land. This mean’t we could easily pop thru the fence and work on it. And when I say ‘we’, I mostly mean Johny, because he […]