{"id":34410,"date":"2019-05-27T10:15:07","date_gmt":"2019-05-27T16:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/?p=34410"},"modified":"2019-05-30T11:44:33","modified_gmt":"2019-05-30T17:44:33","slug":"everest-2019-summit-wave-recap-7-quiet-summits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/27\/everest-2019-summit-wave-recap-7-quiet-summits\/","title":{"rendered":"Everest 2019: Summit Wave Recap 7 – Quiet Summits, Another Death"},"content":{"rendered":"

While almost all the teams are packing up at base camps on both sides, a few are still aiming to summit and one did this Monday, May 27 morning.<\/p>\n

Mike Hammil’s Climbing the Seven Summits<\/a>‘ team lead by Casey Grom summited with no one else around!<\/p>\n

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They say the weather is perfect and they have the summit all to themselves! Everyone on top so 100% from CTSS for everyone who left Base Camp on a summit bid. Just confirming but 4 climbers, 3 guides, 9 sherpa:\u00a0<\/span>Mrika Nikqi – Kosovo Arianit Nikqi – Kosovo Ignacio Montesinos – Argentina Chris Kulish – USA CTSS Guides: Guide Casey Grom – USA Guide Tomas Ceppi – Argentina Guide Parkash Sherpa – Nepal<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Update<\/strong>: It appears one of the CTSS members listed on their website as a successful summit died on the descent, 61 year-old American lawyer Chris Kulish. Reuters is reporting:<\/p>\n

Christopher Jon Kulish, 61, scaled the 8,850 meter (29,035 feet) peak from the normal Southeast Ridge route in the morning but died suddenly at South Col after descending from the summit, Mira Acharya, a Nepal tourism department official said.<\/p>\n

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Beautiful picture from Garrett Madison<\/a>:<\/div>\n
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4 days ago I was savoring one of my favorite views, looking down the summit ridge of Mount Everest, a perfect morning and not many people on the route. Behind and to the left is #<\/span>Lhotse<\/span><\/span><\/a> the 4th highest peak. I\u2019m very thankful that all of our team made it down safely and we are now back in #<\/span>Kathmandu<\/span><\/span><\/a> thanks to helicopter <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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