Everest 2018: Waiting and Packing-Summit Time Approaches
The excitement is building as team after team is packing for their summit push. All the years of saving, dreaming and training […]
Month: May 2018
Everest 2018: The New Generation of Everest Guides Making Their Mark
With the #Everest2018 season pausing for wind, I wanted to explore a few trends that are in full demonstration this season. All […]
Missing Climber on Shishapangma
Bulgarian Boyan Petrov (45) is reported missing on the only 8000-meter peak fully within Tibet, Shishapangma. The working assumption is that he […]
Everest 2018: Summit Plans Developing
We are entering the sixth week of the #Everest2018 season and overall it’s going quite well. Today, Monday 7 May saw climbers […]
Everest 2018: Nepal Silly Rules Strikes Again
In what would be celebrated by most countries for skill and an attraction to others, Willie Benegas and Matt Moniz skied down […]
Everest 2018: Weekend Update May 6
It’s early May on Everest so that must mean the wind is blowing, and how it blows! Most teams are back in […]
Everest 2018: Skiing and Waiting
The winds have arrived on both sides of Everest above 7,000 meters and may get worse before reducing in speed. It is […]
Everest 2018: Taking Weather Risks
Everything has been going so well on #Everest2018 that it had to end soon given the history of this mountain. It seems […]
Everest 2018: The Climb to Honor Ueli Steck
In late March, Tenjing “Tenji” Sherpa wrote on his Facebook page “Happy 4th months Birthday to my little princess, Chhenzum. Sometimes when […]
Everest 2018: Pushing Hard before the Wait
Sometimes you have to go slow to go fast. But right now, the pressure is building to get the last acclimatization rotations […]