As the first weather window closed, there have been many summits but also a tragic series of deaths, missing climbers and frostbite and evacuations. The air temperatures have been very cold, even with manageable winds across the Himalaya the last few days.<\/p>\n
As expected, once the ropes were set to the summits, climbers took advantage of a two or three day window of reasonable winds to go on their summit pushes. Everest has now over 110 summits of the roughly 700 humans (members and support) who are expected to make a push. The remaining climbers are preparing leave base camp for the next window starting after May 20th or 21st.<\/p>\n
For many, these last few days brought to life their dreams, and fears and tested their families all at the same time. Congratulations to all on the Hills and back at home sending love and support.<\/p>\n
One disturbing trend already this season are the incidents. There have been seven deaths and two climbers are missing<\/strong> on multiple peaks:\u00a0Cho Oyu, Annapurna, Makalu and today, Kanchenjunga with two Indian climbers. Also today, one Everest climber on an independent Seven Summits Treks team Update<\/strong>:\u00a0Makalu Xtreme, Lhotse: Ivan Yuriev Tomov<\/strong>, died in tent at high camp after no Os’\/support summit<\/p>\n In addition, there have been climbers and Sherpas hurt by rock fall, falls down the Lhotse Face and many, many altitude related cases treated by EverestER. Sadly, all of these incidents suggest a level of inexperience and inadequate support for the new demographics of climber across the 8000-meters peaks.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n I have done my best to list all the summits by company thus far this season. You \u00a0can see individual names by clicking on the common name on the tracker table.<\/a> If I missed someone, please let me know.<\/p>\n Teams that have left Everest Base Camp – Nepal for their summit bid targeting May 21 but it may be a day or two later. They \u00a0include:<\/p>\n The dates are set. Tonight at 2:00am I am heading up from #<\/span>everestbasecamp<\/a> for our summit push. I have split the Asian Trekking teams into 3 waves, aiming to #<\/span>summit<\/a> on the 21st, 22nd and 23rd of May. If the gods allow it, I will be leading the first wave and hope to stand on the top on the 21st! I plan to stay an extra day after the summit at the South Col to support the 2nd and 3rd waves as they too make their way up! Everything is set, all the members and Sherpas are rested and strong, the weather forecasts are good, so now we just pray. \u2018Om Ah Hung Vajra Guru Pema Siddhi Hung!\u2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Teams are prepping for a post May 20 effort but are frustrated by the Chinese rope fixing team. Some teams are leaving Chinese Base camp this weekend.<\/p>\n Best of luck to all the climbers as we look at the next window.<\/p>\n Climb On! As the first weather window closed, there have been many summits but also a tragic series of deaths, missing climbers and frostbite […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":10369,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"With a lull between the weather windows on #everest2019, teams are returning to base while others are climbing up for the window next week. Many deaths and incidents already.","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":[147,526],"tags":[448,521],"class_list":["post-34005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-everest","category-everest-2019-coverage","tag-everest","tag-everest-2019-coverage"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/lhotseview.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34005","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=34005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}lead by Noel Hanna<\/del> was found dead in his tent at the South Col, Ravi Thakar, and Irish climber Seamus Sean Lawless, 39, on a team\u00a0lead by Noel Hanna is missing now heard dead. High winds have stopped any search Friday, May 17.<\/del><\/p>\nNepal – 110++ Summits<\/h2>\n
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Everest Outlook<\/h3>\n
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Tibet – Quiet<\/h2>\n
Others 8000ers<\/h2>\n
Lhotse – 20+<\/h3>\n
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Makalu – 42+<\/h3>\n
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Kanchenjunga – 28+<\/h3>\n
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Dhaulagiri<\/h3>\n
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Annapurna – 32<\/h3>\n
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\nMemories are Everything!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"