Everest 2019: Summit Wave 4 Underway – Tiny Window – Update 3
Update 3: IMG reports summits: Ms. Daphne de Jong Netherlands Sonam Tashi Sherpa Nepal Ms. Fatima Deryan Republic of Lebanon Ang Karma Sherpa […]
Month: May 2019
Everest 2019: Summit Wave 3 Recap, Wave 4 Underway 250 Expected
Looks like the winds have finally dropped. Teams for both the Nepal and Tibet sides report calm conditions and summit pushes underway. Wave 3 Recap: Summits!!! There were […]
Everest 2019: Summit Wave 3 Summits and Delays – Update 1
Update 1: Summit Climb reports summits with no names or detail: “Today 1st Team reach at the Summit. Congratulations. Have safe down. […]
Everest 2019: Summit Wave 3 – Cold for 14 on Top
There were 14 summits of this next, and perhaps next to last, window of the spring 2019 season early Monday morning, May […]
Everest 2019: Weekend Update May 19
Last week was important for climbers across the Himalayan. The ropes were fixed to the summit on four separate 8000-meter mountains all on the same day, May […]
Everest 2019: Next Summit Waves Prepare
Teams are staged at high camps just waiting for the green light from their weather forecasters. It is a mixed bag on […]
Too Many Deaths – Opinion
A horribly disturbing trend is showing all the signs of coming to full life this spring season across the world’s highest peaks. […]
Everest 2019: Quiet after 3 Successful and 10 Dead Thus Far
As the first weather window closed, there have been many summits but also a tragic series of deaths, missing climbers and frostbite […]
Everest 2019: Summit Wave 2 Update and Recap, Kang Deaths – Update
UPDATE: 2 Deaths, a missing climber and 2 more needed helicopter evacuation off Kanchenjunga. Over 32 Everest summits on Thursday, May 16,2019, […]
Everest 2019: Kanchenjunga Indian Climbers In Trouble – Sad Update
A desperate situation is underway with everyone doing what they can to help Indian climbers Biplab Baidya and Kuntal Karar who are in […]