{"id":30924,"date":"2018-05-23T11:23:37","date_gmt":"2018-05-23T17:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/?p=30924"},"modified":"2018-05-23T16:26:00","modified_gmt":"2018-05-23T22:26:00","slug":"everest-2018-summit-wave-10-recap-summits-avalanche-and-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/23\/everest-2018-summit-wave-10-recap-summits-avalanche-and-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Everest 2018: Summit Wave 10 Recap – Summits, Avalanche and 3 8000ers in 25 days – Update"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the 10th straight day, there were summits on Mt. Everest. It all began on 13 May when the Sherpa rope fixing team summited from Nepal, then on the next day the ropes were fixed on the Tibet side. With the door wide open, teams took advantage of an advantage streak of suitable weather.<\/p>\n

I’m Melting<\/h3>\n

And even today, 23 May, there were more summits on Everest but climbing in late May has serious concern as it is warm. Sangeeta S Bahl<\/a>\u00a0told me about her trip through the Icefall on 22 May after summiting the previous day, “But coming down yesterday there were rivers flowing.\u00a0Very soggy n slippery.\u00a0I took that extra one hour to come down in one piece” This is par for the course in late May.<\/p>\n

Global Rescue<\/a> who runs perhaps the largest rescue service on Everest has staff positioned all across Nepal during the peak climbing season.\u00a0Ann Shannon,\u00a0Manager, Public Relations, sent me this video of a major avalanche that hit the upper part of the Khumbu Icefall Wednesday afternoon. No injuries were reported. This is the main reason people avoid being anywhere near the Icefall in the heat of the afternoon.<\/p>\n

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Nepal Summits<\/h3>\n

Summit Climb<\/a>\u00a0got their team to the summit early Wednesday morning. They have not specified how many members and Sherpas summited. A\u00a0Nepali Female Journalists team also summited Calling themselves \u00a0\u201cFirst Women Journalists Everest Expedition 2018″ ,\u00a0Rosha Basnet of Rastriya Samachar Samiti, Kalpana Maharjan of Mega Television , Rojita Buddhacharya of Nepal Television and Deuralee Chamling, a freelancer, summited guided by\u00a0Phurba Tenjing Sherpa<\/a>\u00a0<\/span> of Dreamers\u2019 Destination.<\/p>\n

“Long Line” Rescue<\/h3>\n

If you ever wonder how someone is rescued from high on the mountain, this video shows the ride. If possible the helicopter will land and the individual will be place, or climb in on their own, into the helicopter. Often the chopper is stripped of all excess gear and the seats, except for the pilot’s, to reduce the weight. They land as high as Camp 2 at 21,000’\/6400m on the Nepal side, however at times they lower a long cable and the ground crew attaches it to a stretcher holding the injured person, then they fly lower. This is a video posted by EverestEr showing a “long line rescue” from near Camp 3 around 23,500’\/7162m by pilot\u00a0Maurizio Folini<\/a>\u00a0and Lakpa Norbu Sherpa<\/a>, a longline rescue specialist. Can you imagine taking this ride?<\/p>\n