{"id":40876,"date":"2022-05-02T10:55:42","date_gmt":"2022-05-02T16:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/?p=40876"},"modified":"2022-05-04T16:07:38","modified_gmt":"2022-05-04T22:07:38","slug":"everest-2022-first-everest-summits-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/02\/everest-2022-first-everest-summits-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Everest 2022: First Everest Summits of the year – Confirmed"},"content":{"rendered":"

Update: from Climbalya<\/span><\/p>\n

The First Everest summit in 2022 from the Tibet side. The route was fixed to the summit by fixing team on 29th April and a commercial team with 20 Tibetan climbers and 11 clients outfitted by Yarla Shampo expedition successfully summited on the 30th of April. The second summit to be followed on 4th May.<\/p>\n

We knew there was a Chinese team on the <\/span>Tibet<\/strong><\/span> side of Everest and that the six to eight-member Tibetan rope team had made good progress and summited on April 28. Now we learn\u00a0from <\/span>Mingma G<\/a><\/span>\u00a0that on April 30, 2022, 11 Chinese with support summited.\u00a0I have not been able to independently verify the summits, but Mingma is usually in the know.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Chinese posted this video on YouTube of installing weather stations on Everest, including at the summit, in 2022, but it’s unclear if they are actually showing a weather station on the summit or in a staging area. On a station, the elevation, 7790m, is written which would be between Camps 2 and 3. The summit is at 8848m.<\/p>\n

I’ll stay on this, but I won’t be surprised if the Chinese summited<\/span>.<\/p>\n