{"id":38900,"date":"2021-04-16T10:42:04","date_gmt":"2021-04-16T16:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/?p=38900"},"modified":"2021-04-23T10:45:02","modified_gmt":"2021-04-23T16:45:02","slug":"annapurna-summits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/16\/annapurna-summits\/","title":{"rendered":"Annapurna 2021: Summits! – Update 4"},"content":{"rendered":"

#4 UPDATE 19 April 2021: FOUND!!\u00a0<\/strong>The Russian climbers are\u00a0Sergey Kondrashkin, Alexander Luthokin, and Dmitry Sinev were found between C3 and C4 and brought down by helicopter longline. Luthokin was returned to base camp while the other two went to Kathmandu with minor frostbite.<\/p>\n

#3 UPDATE 18 April 2021: <\/strong>The Russian climbers are\u00a0Sergey Kondrashkin, Alexander Luthokin, and Dmitry Sinev are missing after leaving Camp 4. \u00a0 Luthokin, had stopped around 7,000 meters and was already descending. In a disturbing pattern, Seven Summit Treks (SST) provided their logistics but usually claims all decisions are up to the climbers and they are not in control.<\/p>\n

#2 UPDATE 18 April 2021:<\/strong> Update on the descent, three Russians are missing. A helicopter search is planning for Monday morning. No further information. source: russianclimb<\/a><\/p>\n

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#1 Update 17 April 2021<\/strong>: New names added to summit list<\/p>\n

After running out of rope the night before, it appears Annapurna saw 67 summits the night of April 16, 2021. By any measure, it was a record night for the deadliest 8000er. The deadliest metric will drop dramatically assuming everyone descends safely. \u00a0Everest permits are now at 338 and Lhotse with 104.<\/p>\n

The summits might have an asterisk beside them as helicopter assisted almost all the teams after tough climbing conditions required more fixed rope than planned and the summit push group had to retreat to high camp for more gear (rope, food, fuel, and oxygen) to be helicoptered in from Kathmandu, a first to my knowledge of something of this magnitude occurred during the summit push. In 2017 on nearby Dhaulagiri, they also ran out of rope and abandoned the effort.<\/p>\n

Who Summited?<\/h3>\n

We only have names for 57 of the climbers. This breaks down to 26 of the 44 permitted members and 26 Sherpas in support.<\/p>\n

Dawa Sherpa of Seven Summits Treks<\/a> posted these names on social media:<\/p>\n

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1 Alvarez Chavez Viridiana \"🇲🇽\"<\/span><\/div>\n
2 Lu chung Han \"🇹🇼\"<\/span> No O2<\/strong><\/div>\n
3 Uta lbrahimi \"🇽🇰\"<\/span><\/div>\n
4 Antonis Sykaris \"🇬🇷\"<\/span><\/div>\n
5 Badia briseida Bonilla luna \"🇲🇽\"<\/span><\/div>\n
6 Mauricio ernsto Lopez Ahumada \"🇲🇽\"<\/span><\/div>\n
7 Purnima Shrestha \"🇳🇵\"<\/span><\/div>\n
8 Lakpa Dendi Sherpa \"🇳🇵\"<\/span><\/div>\n
9 Gesman Tamang \"🇳🇵\"<\/span> No O2<\/strong><\/div>\n
10 Lakpa temba Sherpa \"🇳🇵\"<\/span><\/div>\n
11 Pemba Sherpa \"🇳🇵\"<\/span><\/div>\n
12 Chhangba Sherpa \"🇳🇵\"<\/span><\/div>\n
13 Dawa Sherpa Italy \"🇳🇵\"<\/span><\/div>\n
14 Jaroslaw Zdanowicz \"🇵🇱\"<\/span><\/div>\n
15 Waldemar Dominik Kowalewski \"🇵🇱\"<\/span><\/div>\n
16 Mingma Tenji Sherpa \"🇳🇵\"<\/span><\/div>\n
17 Sergei kondrashkin \"🇷🇺\"<\/span><\/div>\n
18 Dmitrii Sinev \"🇷🇺\"<\/span><\/div>\n
19 ADrian laza \"🇷🇴\"<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Pioneer Adventures<\/a> showed these summiters:<\/div>\n
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  1. Hu Tao of China<\/li>\n
  2. Bhagwan Chawale, India<\/li>\n
  3. Priyanka Mohite, First Indian Female<\/strong><\/li>\n
  4. Sanu Sherpa<\/li>\n
  5. Pema Chhiring Sherpa<\/li>\n
  6. Mingma Dorchi Sherpa<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    MIngma G’s<\/a> Imagine Nepal listed these summiters:<\/p>\n

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    1. Mingma Gyalen Sherpa No O2<\/strong><\/li>\n
    2. Hong Dong Juan, China<\/li>\n
    3. Gao Li of China<\/li>\n
    4. Sirbaz Khan,\u00a0Pakistan First<\/strong><\/li>\n
    5. Muhammad Abdul Joshi, Pakistan FirstI<\/strong><\/li>\n
    6. Gina Marie, U.S.<\/li>\n
    7. Dawa Gyalje Sherpa<\/li>\n
    8. Dawa Yangjum Sherpa No O2<\/strong><\/li>\n
    9. Pasang Lhamu Sherpa<\/li>\n
    10. Dabhuti Sherpa<\/li>\n
    11. Pasang Namgya Sherpa<\/li>\n
    12. Phur Gyalzen Sherpa<\/li>\n
    13. Tamting Sherpa<\/li>\n
    14. Pema Tenzin Sherpa<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Expedition Base<\/a> also had success but is coy with the names: “Summits of some Expedition Base team members occurred approximately 1.40 pm local time. They are now descending from the summit. For friends of TM following, yes she did! Safe descents everyone!” he further posted “well done to our five (5) summiteers ” but still no names published by them.<\/p>\n

      Peak Promotions<\/a> also had climbers summit, including the three Indians from the\u00a0Giripremi<\/a> team<\/p>\n

      1. Bhushan Harshe \"🇮🇳\"<\/span><\/div>\n
      2. Dr. Sumit Mandale \"🇮🇳\"<\/span><\/div>\n
      3. Jitendra Gavare \"🇮🇳\"<\/span><\/div>\n
      4. Yogendar Garbiyal \"🇮🇳\"<\/span><\/div>\n
      5. Sheetal \"🇮🇳\"<\/span><\/div>\n
      7. Christopher Warner \"🇺🇸\"<\/span><\/div>\n
      8. Tracee Lee \"🇺🇸\"<\/span><\/div>\n
      9. Maya Sherpa<\/div>\n
      10. Dawa Ongju Sherpa<\/div>\n
      11. Mingmar Thindu Sherpa<\/div>\n
      12. Pasang Sherpa (Zarok)<\/div>\n
      13. Pasang Sherpa (Taplejung)<\/div>\n
      14. Mingma Ongya Sherpa<\/div>\n
      15. Pasang Tenji Sherpa<\/div>\n
      16. Tamting Sherpa<\/div>\n
      17. Chhiring Sherpa<\/div>\n
      18. Pasang Sherpa<\/div>\n
      19. Phurba Pasang Sherpa<\/div>\n
      <\/div>\n
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      Worth repeating is that Purnima Shrestha, Dawa Yangjung, Dabhuti Sherpa, Pasang Lhamu Sherpa, Sharmila Tamang, and Maya Sherpa became the first Nepali women to summit Annapurna.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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      Historical Stats<\/h3>\n

      Before these summits, there have only been 298 summits out of 1874 people above base camp for a success rate of 15.9. 72 people have died for a death rate of 3.84. This compares to a success rate on Everest of 39.16 (second only to Cho Oyu at 42.2 for the highest for the 8000ers) and a death rate of 1.16 according to the Himalayan Database. The female record was smashed last night with only 18 females summiters total previously and at well over 7 this spring.<\/p>\n

      The youngest summiter on Annapurna was American Mathew Koehler at 19 in 1991 and the oldest, none other than Carlos Soria Fontan from Spain at age 77 in 2016. The most successful years prior to spring 2021 were in 2010:26, 2016:30, and 2019 at 33. The average expedition success rate since 1950 is only 33%.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

      Dhaulagiri<\/h3>\n

      Some of the Annapurna summiters will move to Dhaulagiri but the route fixing hasn’t begun. Among the climber is 82-year-old Carlos Soria is on this 12th (yes twelfth) attempt of Dhaulagiri. He only has it and Shishapangma to complete climbing all fourteen of the 8000-meter peaks.<\/p>\n

      The Slovak-Romanian team lead by Peter Hamor<\/strong> with Marius Gane<\/strong> and Horia Colib\u0103\u0219anu\u00a0<\/strong>has made progress on their attempt the\u00a0North-West ridge and then descend along the North-East ridge.<\/span><\/p>\n

      Follow Along!<\/h2>\n

      I’m updating\u00a0team location table<\/a> and tracking climber’s blogs (see sidebar). If you have a team not listed, please let me know, and I will add them if I can track them. If you prefer not to be mentioned, please contact<\/a> me.<\/p>\n

      Climb On!
      \nAlan
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      After running out of rope the night before, it appears Annapurna saw 68 summits the night of April 16, 2021. By any measure, it was a record night for the deadliest 8000er. The deadliest metric will drop dramatically assuming everyone descends safely.\u00a0<\/p>\n

      The weather continues to be a concern, not current but previous with a dry winter of little snowfall making the Lhotse Face rock hard blue ice. We are seeing this on Annapurna with a summit bid underway. Unexpected hard ice above Camp 4 caused the Sherpas to use more rope than they carried and they ran out. More was helicoptered in from Kathmandu, a first to my knowedge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":33480,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"After running out of rope the night before, it appears #annapurna2021 saw 68 summits on April 16, 2021. By any measure, it was a record night for the deadliest 8000er. The deadliest metric will drop dramatically assuming everyone descends safely.\u00a0Summit details attached","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":[609,7,147,599,81],"tags":[610,432,448,603,439],"class_list":["post-38900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-annapurna-2021-coverage","category-climbing-news","category-everest","category-everest-2021-coverage","category-everest-news","tag-annapurna-2021-coverage","tag-climbing-news","tag-everest","tag-everest-2021-coverage","tag-everest-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/image-3.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38900","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=38900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}