Update: 2018 Oxygen Failure on Everest – Regulator Recall
Followers of the Everest 2018 spring climbing season will recall that a few teams experienced a failure of their supplemental oxygen systems […]
Category: Everest 2018 Coverage
Preparing for Everest 2019!
With #Everest2018 in the books, I wanted to step back and see what lessons were available from this season and how to […]
Everest 2018: Season Summary – Record Weather, Record Summits
With an unprecedented weather window, the Everest season is winding down I estimate a total of over 800 summits smashing the previous […]
Everest 2018: May 25 Team Locations and Headlines
UPDATED: May 25, 2018 This is Alan Arnette’s Everest 2018 coverage and annual coverage and based on my own Everest and K2 summits and […]
Everest 2018: Wave 11 Recap – All over after 11 Straight Summit Days!
I was told yesterday, 23 May, by Gyanendra Shrestha the senior representative of the Ministry Of Tourism & Civil Avation. Kathmandu at Everest Base Camp “a […]
Everest 2018: Summit Wave 10 Recap – Summits, Avalanche and 3 8000ers in 25 days – Update
For the 10th straight day, there were summits on Mt. Everest. It all began on 13 May when the Sherpa rope fixing […]
Everest 2018: Summit Wave 9 Recap – More Sherpa Deaths with Summits
Two more Sherpas died increasing the total to five Everest deaths and one on Lhotse this season. Again these tragedies cast a […]
Everest 2018: Summit Wave 8 – Recap, Hillary Step Photo – Update 2
Update 2: Teams are near the summit in what is reported as excellent conditions Alpine Ascents: 3 guides, 8 members, 8 Sherpas- […]
Everest 2018: Dead on Everest Japanese Alpinist Nobukazu Kuriki
Stunning news that Japanese climber Nobukazu Kuriki was found dead at Camp 2 on the Nepal side of Everest on the Standard route. […]
Everest 2018: Summit Wave 8 – Winds Picking Up
As I posted a few hours ago, there are several teams moving to the summit of Everest both on the Tibet and […]