At this point in the season, acclimatization rotations are serious. Many people are either tagging or sleeping at 7,000-meter at the North Col or Camp 3 on the Nepal side. Also at this point is when some people have hit the wall and already left for home. Its crunch time!<\/p>\n
The fixed line is now above the North Col and almost to the South Col on the Tibet and Nepal sides respectively.We might see the first summit late this week or early next week by a rope team – IF the weather cooperates.<\/p>\n
I often talk about the ones left behind – the spouse, partners, family members who don’t know what they don’t know and reject “no news is good news” axiom. \u00a0Jamie Ironmonger<\/a><\/span>‘s spouse, Natile did this great post:<\/p>\n Jamie has just called me from ABC (Advanced Basecamp) at 21300ft \/ 6492m. Thank you so much to ne – it\u2019s been a difficult few days waiting to hear from him, and it would\u2019ve been even longer without the use of the phone!<\/p>\n Jamie is doing well. He\u2019s had no effects of altitude, he\u2019s maintaining a steady pace and feels good. He has warm feet thanks to the wonderful people at Bridgedale and was even stripped down to his pants earlier as the sun had warmed the tent so much!<\/p>\n He\u2019s making me feel a tad jealous as he\u2019s bragging about having an incredible view of Everest and the North Col from his tent!The team are resting for the remainder of today and tomorrow whilst they wait for the team fixing the ropes to make the North Col accessible, and then they\u2019re off for a further rotation up and back again.<\/p>\n As always, I\u2019ll keep you posted whenever I have news. \u00a0Thank you again for all your continued support.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Mingma Sherpa<\/a>\u00a0made this update on the upcoming weather and their shift over to Makalu then come back to Everest<\/p>\n Back to Base Camp after acclimatization half way to camp3. Our original plan to climb Lhotse on 3 or 4 May is postponed for now because of too much wind in upcoming days.\u00a0Will go for Makalu before Everest and Lhotse. Our Makalu team has already set up camp-3 which is our final camp before summit.Time to Roar on 8000m one by one.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n