Everest 2017: More North Summits 16 May, South Underway – Update 3

Everest from Tibet

The north side of Everest continues with solid results. Over 30 people are under way on the Nepal side tonight but no word yet on result or conditions. with 17 summits and probably more. The winds were supposed to pick up around noon on the south side, and perhaps the north but we’ll see what the climbers report.

“Both Sides Club”

Mollie Hughes just tweeted she, Jon Gupta with Lhakpa Sherpa and Lila summited making Mollie the youngest British female to summit from both sides of Everest. You can follow their descent on the tracker here

Mollie joins a small club of female climbers who have summited Everest from both the Tibet and Nepal sides:

Female Everest Summiter from Tibet and Nepal
source: Himalayan Database, Alan Arnette Research

Teenage Summits

The Transcend Indian team continued their success with four more teenagers on top along with six Sherpas.

For those curious about the teenagers with Transcend. Their home team gave me some additional information today:

I would like to mention here that in spite of the young age of all these climbers, our core team of trainers & instructors have made sure that they have received ample training before being to an expedition like Everest. To be very specific, our’s is definitely not the type of Adventure Company that promotes to take a weekend trekker to the Mt. Everest.

To give you a very basic idea of what goes into our training, after the initial selection based of physical and mental tests, the climbers are sent to one of the first and oldest Mountaineering Institutes of India for their Basic Mountaineering Course. Over here, these candidates are not only trained in the techniques of Ice & Rock Craft but made to trek through one of the toughest mountain terrains.

The amount of load the climber carries along with the tough terrain, makes this trek a nightmare to most. And only those who have successfully cleared this course with the highest merit are taken to the next level: Winter Training. In this part, the trainees are made to experience almost the same weather conditions, terrain, etc., that one would find on an 8000m peak like Everest. And only after the trainee has cleared all these physical and mental aptitude tests, he/she is taken to the Everest.

More North Summits – UPDATE 1,2 and 3

Amical reports summits at 3:05 am in good weather. Not confirmed but Adventure Peaks has put climbers on the summit from Tibet. Horia Colibasanu summited without supplemental oxygen.

Nepal Side Pushes – UPDATE 2

Adventure Global said Anshu Jamsenpa and Furi Sherpa summited.

A 19 member group from Ascent Himalaya aka Ireland to Everest is attempting the summit from Nepal summited:

UPDATE: Big Summits from Nepal

AH Everest/Lhotse 2017 Update: Mingma Sherpa(EBC).
The Everest team made the successful summit of Mt Everest at 9:45am local time. The team consists of 8 members and 9 climbing sherpas which was leaded by Pasang Tenzing Sherpa,Furtemba Sherpa & Narendra Shahi who are the internationally certified IFMGA GUIDES. They made a 100 % success on Everest making the following records.

1:Torkjel Hurtig (Norway) became the youngest to summit Mt Evrest from south side at the age 0f 28 who was supported by our climbing guide Yukta Tamu(Nepal).
2:John Burke(Ireland) became the first to summit from Clare and we thanks to our climbing guide Tamting Sherpa(Nepal) for his great help and support for his successful summit.
3:Viridiana Alvarez (Mexico) summited Mt Everest (8848m) on her 34th Birthday and thanks to our Climbing Guide Narendra Shahi for a great birthday gift.
4:Adriano Freire(Brazil) also made to the summit of Mt Everest(8848m) on his first attempt together with his personal guide Furtemba Sherpa & Tsering Dawa Sherpa(Nepal) who followed and support him all the way from EBC.
5:Allan Meek (UK/Welsh) summited Mt Everest (8848m) on his first attempt with his climbing guide Nawang Jangbu Sherpa (Nepal)
6:Andre Spica (Norway) summited Mt Everest (8848m) on his first attempt with his climbing guide Ang Dorjee Sherpa (Nepal)
7:Une Prestholt(Norway):After 2 bad years on Everest.Une finally made to the summit of Mt Everest together with Dawa Tashi Sherpa(Nepal)
8:Richard Brook (Australia) made the successful summit of Mt Everest (8848m) on his 3rd attempt.

We Ascent Himalayas family would like to congratulate all our members & climbing guides for the successful Everest Expedition 2017.And also we thanks to Pasang Tenzing Sherpa (Everest Team Leader) for his great guidance throughout the journey and Mingma Tsiri Sherpa for his great management during the expedition and keeping us updated with all the details.

Lhotse Pushes

Cian O’Brolchain and John Snorri Sigurjónsson and Allan Cohrs  are nearing Lhotse

Dhaulagiri 8000er Finisher

Peter Hámor completed his 8000er with a summit of Dhaulagiri. The Slovakian summited all 14 of the 8000er  without supplemental O2.

I’l update this post as I get more information.

Climb On!
Alan
Memories are Everything

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7 thoughts on “Everest 2017: More North Summits 16 May, South Underway – Update 3

  1. Thanks for that list, Alan. Congratulations to Mollie. She may have been the youngest, but I’m sure Margaret Watroba, whom I climbed with in 2012 between her two summits, would be desperate for me to tell you that at the grand age of 63 she was almost certainly the oldest.

  2. Alan
    I have just found out that Horia Colibasanu from Romania has been summited Everest this morning with out oxygen or Sherpa help….this sounds unbelievable performance.

  3. Alan do you know has anyone ever summitted Everest before summiting any other mountain first? Is it even possible to do?

    1. Not sure what you mean by “any other mountain”. If you mean a peak under 6000 meter, then probably but not very smart and if they did they were lucky to have lived. If you mean a peak over 7000 meter, yes many.

  4. Well done to Mollie Hughes and the second wave of Indian teens with Transcend!

    I hope that people will exercise patience and caution when it comes to the weather and choosing a summit window.

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