{"id":21613,"date":"2015-10-07T11:42:40","date_gmt":"2015-10-07T17:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/?p=21613"},"modified":"2015-10-11T20:51:01","modified_gmt":"2015-10-12T02:51:01","slug":"updates-from-autumn-himalayan-climbs-everest-summit-bid-underway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/07\/updates-from-autumn-himalayan-climbs-everest-summit-bid-underway\/","title":{"rendered":"autumn Himalayan Update: Everest Summit Bid Underway – Update"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Everest<\/a>UPDATE<\/strong>: It appears Kuriki has turned back due to high winds\u00a0and deep snow thus ending his attempt to summit\u00a0Everest. He posted:<\/p>\n

However, case<\/a> because of high winds and deep snow, we were determined not to go back to live and to proceed further. While you climb in the absence of oxygen, given the time limit of up to return to the wind and the final camp become more strongly the future.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The big news is that\u00a0Japanese Nobukazu Kuriki<\/a>\u00a0has started his second\u00a0summit attempt of his autumn expedition.<\/p>\n

Manaslu – Summits, Death and Rescue<\/h3>\n

As previously reported, over 80 climbers\u00a0made the summit of Manaslu threading the needle of difficult weather and conditions.<\/p>\n

One climber\u00a0died after summiting. Zoltan Benedek was\u00a0climbing\u00a0with Dan Mazur’s SummitClimb. Mazur tweeted:<\/p>\n

Now we are on top of summit: Marin, Jean-Luc, Dan. Jangbu, NaTenji. We can see ?#?<\/span>Everest?<\/span><\/a>. Hope we will get down ok. Tricky. Be careful!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Himalayan Times<\/a> reported the death<\/p>\n

According to Gyanendra Shrestha, an official at the Department of Tourism under the Ministry of Culture Tourism and Civil Aviation, the expedition organiser confirmed on Friday afternoon that Zoltan Benedek breathed his last while descending from Camp IV.Benedek successfully summitted the world\u2019s eighth highest peak on Wednesday, Shrestha said.<\/p>\n

Born in Odorhei of\u00a0 Austria in 1964, Benedek was a part of a 14-member-team led by Daniel Lee Mazur, according to officials at the Seven Summit Treks.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Another member of the SummitClimb\u00a0team had to be rescued according to the Times’ article:<\/p>\n

\u201cBenedek\u2019s partner Jean-Luc from France had to be rescued from Camp IV to Camp III on Friday morning and was flown by helicopter from 6,800 m. Both climbers were climbing without any support above base camp,\u201d another team leader Arnold Coster told THT Online<\/em> from Camp II.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I reached out to Mazur for details but he has not responded.<\/p>\n

Nuptse – Climbing<\/h3>\n

Ueli Steck<\/a> is acclimatizing in Nepal’s Khumbu region as he prepares to climb the south face of Nuptse 7804 m.<\/p>\n

Dhaulagiri – Climbing<\/h3>\n

A small team lead by French Alpinist Yannick Graziani<\/a> is aiming to summt\u00a0Dhaulagiri (26794’\/8167m)\u00a0over the next few days. Their team provided this update:<\/p>\n

Short interview with Yannick this morning. It Is Good Weather forecast for the next Few days and perfect timing to try to reach the submit around the October 11th \/ 12th. They Will join ABC (5200m) this evening. Weak wind Will Make Easier the journey.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Everest – Summit Bid Underway<\/h3>\n

Japanese Nobukazu Kuriki<\/a>, reached 7600 meters on the climber’s\u00a0left of\u00a0the normal\u00a0route on the Lhotse Face. \u00a0After establishing camp there, he rested and just posted<\/a> that he is leaving for the summit in the next couple of hours.<\/p>\n

He hit deep snow last week at 7700 meters\u00a0and turned back. High winds have been common the last few days. <\/span><\/p>\n

He is alone with no Os so he needs to move fast to stay warm. His previous \u00a0frostbite makes him more prone for frostbite now. He is starting 400 meters lower than the standard summit departure point on the South Col making for an extraordinarily long summit push.<\/span><\/p>\n

This is his 5th attempt on Everest.<\/span><\/p>\n

You can follow his progress on his SPOT<\/a> tracker but be advised this is not always accurate in this terrain.<\/p>\n

Best of luck to him.<\/p>\n

Climb On!
\nAlan
\nMemories are Everything<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

UPDATE: It appears Kuriki has turned back due to high winds\u00a0and deep snow thus ending his attempt to summit\u00a0Everest. He posted: However, […]<\/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":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climbing-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21613","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=21613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}