For the first time since May 24, 2013, climbers officially\u00a0summited\u00a0Everest from Nepal. First this year was the rope fixing team of nine Sherpas then on their heels were two Sherpas and two UK climbers. A slew of other teams are on stand-by but the weather is closing the window quickly so it will be a race to see if anyone else summits in the next few days.<\/p>\n
A team of nine Sherpas\u00a0from multiple teams completed the rope fixing to the summit from the South Col on Wednesday, May 11, 2016. These were the first summits since Jing Wang claimed a summit on May 23, 2014 – which is disputed by many not only for her using a helicopter to bypass the Khumbu Icefall but some even claim she did not summit at all given the absence of proof. The previous\u00a0summit was on May 24, 2013 by Lhapka Nuru Sherpa (Thami) at 6:00 am.<\/p>\n
The nine Sherpas who fixed the rope this year were reported as\u00a0Gyalzen Dorje (Himalayan Experience), Ang Pemba (International Mountain Guides), Nima Tshering (Himalayan Guides), Sera Gyalzen (Asian Treks), Pasang Tenzing (Ascent Himalaya), Mingma (Seven Summits), Mingma Tsiri (NCC), Ang Gyalzen (Arun Treks)and Lhakpa Tsering (Himalayan Guides)<\/p>\n
On the heels of the Sherpas\u00a0who broke the trail to the summit, Sherpas from HG Everest Expedition 2016 \u2013 Pemba Bhote from Hatiya, Sankhuwasabha and Dorchi Gyalzen, Khumjung, Solukhumbu summited along with Kenton Cool and\u00a0Robert Lucas bringing the total to 13 in 2016 from\u00a0the Nepal Side. This was Cool’s 12th<\/sup> summit of\u00a0Everest.<\/p>\n A few hours later, Asian Trekking announced that David Liano Gonzalez from Mexico summited Everest today at 8:24 am along with his climbing sherpa Pasang Rita Sherpa.\u00a0He did not use Oxygen. This was Liano 6th summit of Everest.<\/p>\n Multiple teams are staged from Camp 2 to the South Col waiting for a good weather forecast. They include: Madison Mountaineering. Jagged Globe, Himalayan Experience and others. Heavy snow is predicting for the next couple of days followed by high winds, but there\u00a0there may be an 18 hour window of opportunity. This is narrow and risky.<\/p>\n Many teams are content to wait for another week.<\/p>\n The Icefall continues to be very unstable as I personally \u00a0saw when I was there. There have been two events that have stopped climbing due to ladders being destroyed by falling ice in the past 24 hours. There were no injuries reported.<\/p>\n Best of luck to all.<\/p>\n Climb On!<\/p>\n Alan<\/p>\n Memories are Everything<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For the first time since May 24, 2013, climbers officially\u00a0summited\u00a0Everest from Nepal. First this year was the rope fixing team of nine […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":22513,"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":"First summits for Sherpas and Westerners since 2013\/14 as weather window close in. #everest2016","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":[460,463],"tags":[461,464],"class_list":["post-22644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-everest-2016-coverage","category-lhotse-2016","tag-everest-2016-coverage","tag-lhotse-2016-climb"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/IMG_3029.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22644","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=22644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Standing By<\/h3>\n
Khumbu Icefall Instability<\/h3>\n