Category: Climbing News

The last few days of low winds have allowed the rope fixing teams to make excellent progress. The rope team from 8K Expeditions summited Lhotse this afternoon, May 8, 2025, marking the first summits of the year. A separate team from 8K will summit Everest tomorrow. This opens the season to the plethora of climbers already staged at Camp 2, just waiting for this event. The Tibetan rope-fixing team has reached 7900 meters or higher on the Tibetan side. I anticipate they will summit over the weekend. Also, a narrative on the anticipation of summiting. #everest2025

The weather forecast calls for lite winds any day now  allowing the rope team to continue fixing to the summit. As of May 6, they’ve got it to the South Col on the Nepal side and proabably above 7900 meters on the Tibet. This will open the mountain for scores for clients with one or more Sherpas in support. Look for a busy first wave of summits later this week. We get a first hand report of the conditons from EBC to C3. #everest2025

As the Sherpas continue fixing the route to the summit on both side, other events are capturing climbers attention on Everest and Makalu. The drone that landed in a crevasse last week was recovered, but is damaged. #everest2025

On April 18, 2014, at 6:35 am, an ice serac released a small section onto the Khumbu Icefall. 16 Sherpas were killed in a moment as tons of ice fell, leaving the mountain workers with few options and nowhere to hide. Historically, on April 18, there was no climbing to honor the fallen, but memories fade, and today, eleven years later, in 2025, there is climbing on Mt. Everest. Only a few guides, mostly Western, acknowledge the day on their sites. #everest2025