{"id":28637,"date":"2018-01-12T13:53:10","date_gmt":"2018-01-12T20:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/?p=28637"},"modified":"2019-04-06T12:28:21","modified_gmt":"2019-04-06T18:28:21","slug":"k2-and-everest-winter-efforts-gets-serious-and-a-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/12\/k2-and-everest-winter-efforts-gets-serious-and-a-death\/","title":{"rendered":"K2 and Everest Winter Efforts Gets Serious and a Death"},"content":{"rendered":"

Both the K2 and Everest teams have established a base camp and touched their mountains. In other news sadly a death on Lobuche Peak in Nepal.<\/p>\n

See this post<\/a> for full background on the K2 and Everest expeditions and the history of winter attempts on the highest two mountains on Earth.<\/p>\n

Winter K2<\/h3>\n

The Polish team<\/a>\u00a0arrived at the spot where they are currently building their base camp. Meanwhile, a few climbers began to fix a small part of the route up the \u010cesen.<\/p>\n

They\u00a0are reporting high winds at base camp that has delayed some progress but also some issues with getting all their gear to BC. Some were left at Concordia so they had to arrange for more porters to ferrying the last goods to their camp.<\/p>\n

\"K2<\/a>
K2 from Concordia 2014 by Alan Arnette<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Winter Everest<\/h3>\n

Alex Txikon<\/a> and five Sherpas have fixed the ropes through the Khumbu Icefall to Camp 1 at 6,050 meters in the Western Cwm. Alex was quite pleased with their progress noting it took them one less day than last year with six instead of 11 climbers.\u00a0Muhammad Ali Sadpara<\/a>\u00a0was acclimatizing elsewhere and did not participate in this work. The team will take the weekend off during a period of forecasted high winds and resume fixing the route early next week.<\/p>\n

Alex posted this video on his Facebook<\/a> feed:<\/p>\n