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Category: Everest 2018 Coverage

May 20, 2018May 20, 2018Everest, Everest 2018 Coverage

Everest 2018: Summit Wave 8 – Update 2

Update 2: Moinz/Benegas summited Lhotse a day after getting Everest. This is the 4th 800er for Matt: Cho Oyu, Makalu, Everest and […]

May 20, 2018April 6, 2019Everest, Everest 2018 Coverage, Weekend Update

Everest 2018: Summit Wave 7 Recap – Another Death, Summits over Obstacles

By this past week’s standard Sunday 20 May was a real slow day on Everest with just a handful of summit, around […]

May 19, 2018April 6, 2019Everest, Everest 2018 Coverage, Weekend Update

Everest 2018: Weekend Update May 20

A lot to cover from this week! Last weekend I started the update with “… this upcoming week will be like riding […]

May 19, 2018April 6, 2019Everest, Everest 2018 Coverage, Weekend Update

Everest 2018: Summit Wave 6 Recap, Wave 7 Underway – Update 1

UPDATE 1: Matt Moniz and Willie Benegas had to slow down and stop because they were climbing too fast otherwise they wold […]

May 18, 2018April 6, 2019Everest, Everest 2018 Coverage, Weekend Update

Everest 2018: Summit Wave 6 Underway

Here we go for the fifth day in a row for Everest summits. Looks like the summit teams may have several inches […]

May 18, 2018April 6, 2019Everest, Everest 2018 Coverage, Weekend Update

Everest 2018: Summit Wave 5 Recap – 100+ Summits, Oxygen Update

It was day four of Summit Central on #Everest2018 with more than 100 combined summits from both sides. Again the weather was holding […]

May 17, 2018April 6, 2019Everest, Everest 2018 Coverage, Weekend Update

Everest 2018: Matt Moniz and Willie Benegas Cleared to Climb

Calling their skiing down the Lhotse Face without a ski permit a “a very innocent mistake” Department of Tourism’s director general Dinesh […]

May 17, 2018April 6, 2019Everest, Everest 2018 Coverage, Weekend Update

Everest 2018: Summit Wave 5 Underway – Update 1

UPDATE 1: Nepal Maddison Mountaineering put 3 guides, 5 members and 8 Sherpas up there. Climbing the Seven Summits had 100% success with 3 […]

May 17, 2018May 19, 2018Everest, Everest 2018 Coverage

Everest 2018: Summit Wave 4 Recap – 70+ Summits and Russian Death on Nepal Side

What was a good day of summits turned tragic as a climber died on the descent on the Nepal side. There were […]

May 16, 2018May 17, 2018Everest, Everest 2018 Coverage

Everest 2018: Summit Wave 4 – Update SUMMITS!

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Teams are once again on the move from their high camps on the Tibet side and Nepal hoping to summit early Thursday […]

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