{"id":20935,"date":"2015-04-27T09:42:50","date_gmt":"2015-04-27T15:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/?p=20935"},"modified":"2016-05-27T13:35:49","modified_gmt":"2016-05-27T19:35:49","slug":"everest-2015-ebc-death-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/27\/everest-2015-ebc-death-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Everest 2015: EBC Death Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A very terse update due to intermittent Internet. Everyone is very tired,     mentally spent. Sincere and deep condolences to everyone in Nepal impacted by this tragedy.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ice serac releases off Pumori caused by 7.9 earthquake near Kathmandu on Saturday<\/li>\n<li>The casualty count at EBC is 22+, s<\/a>  site  many, many injuries ~ 40+++ as of this post &#8211; 7PM April 27<\/li>\n<li>Most of the injuries and\u00a0casualty were from wind blast off Pumori and associated impact with rocks<\/li>\n<li>EverestER and Doctors with others teams doing amazing work<\/li>\n<li>Alan was between C1 and C2 when earthquake hit causing major avalanches off Nuptse and Everest W Shoulder<\/li>\n<li>Alan now at Gorak Shep starting long journey to return home, comms spotty at <\/li>\n<li>Multiple aftershocks created uncertainty a about Khumbu Icefall causing evac from Cwm and cancellation of many team&#8217;s expeditions.<\/li>\n<li>Over 150 helicoptered from C1 in Western Cwm today, April 27<\/li>\n<li>No one ever in real danger at C1 and C2, plenty of food and supplies<\/li>\n<li>A few more teams being evac Tuesday, April 28 including Summit Climb\u00a0 and Italian team according to Sherpas<\/li>\n<li>4 minute turn around time to EBC with 2 per helicopter<\/li>\n<li>Outstanding cooperation with some exceptions<\/li>\n<li>Many have found personal items in flattened tents<\/li>\n<li>Many teams have left EBC and are in teahouse in Khumbu<\/li>\n<li>Some are back in Kathmandu via helicopter<\/li>\n<li>Almost all teams are preparing to leave EBC and stop south side attempts<\/li>\n<li>Indian Army team of 35 to remain at EBC to assist with humanitarian efforts<\/li>\n<li>Some small teams will stay and make a decision in a few days<\/li>\n<li>Icefall Doctors have stopped maintaining the route due to safety, aftershock concerns &#8211; they may return &#8211; unkown<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A very terse update due to intermittent Internet. Everyone is very tired, mentally spent. Sincere and deep condolences to everyone in Nepal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[409,413],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2015-coverage","category-lhotse-2015"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}