{"id":10186,"date":"2012-05-19T08:02:37","date_gmt":"2012-05-19T14:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/?p=10186"},"modified":"2012-12-15T07:48:35","modified_gmt":"2012-12-15T14:48:35","slug":"everest-2012-wave-1recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/19\/everest-2012-wave-1recap\/","title":{"rendered":"Everest 2012: Wave 2 Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Everest from Pumori<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There were many summits on May 19 as expected. The winds seemed low in the morning but picked up as the day progressed. There were reports of delays at the Hilary Step and over on the North due to crowds.<\/p>\n

I have updated the location table based on information available and estimated some in the “other” category. We know there were several large teams on the South and Chinese on the North but there is no way of tracking them.<\/p>\n

The normal reporting practice on the South is once the team summits, ask<\/a> they report the results to the Nepal Ministry of Tourism and they eventually publish a press release or report \u2013 this can take days or months for the official report. Hopefully the team you are interested in will publish something through their hometown press if\/when they summit.<\/p>\n

It was confirmed that Ueli Steck and Nepalese Tenzing reached the summit on May 18, ed<\/a> 2012 without using oxygen.<\/p>\n

South<\/h4>\n

The early reports are mostly from the traditional commercial teams. They had good success last night. Between Adventure Consultants, IMG and Peak Freaks, they put 45 people on the summit. All have a second wave either at Camp 3 going up today or base camp hoping to summit around May 25. These expeditions listed the names of their summiters on their websites.<\/p>\n

The Indian Pune<\/a> team also enjoyed success:<\/p>\n

Sagarmatha Giryarohan Sanstha and Giripremi — the two Pune groups — announced success of their respective expeditions on their Facebook pages. It was a bitter-sweet success for Sagarmatha group, though, as it lost one of its members, Ramesh Gulave, to altitude-related sickness in an earlier stage of the expedition a few days ago. Eight climbers from Giripremi, including Tekraj Adhikari and Krishna Dhokale, and four from Sagarmatha Giryarohan — Shrihari Tapkir, Sagar Palkar, Balaji Mane and Anand Bansode — reached the summit from the `South Col’ route, from Nepal.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Other summiters included:<\/p>\n