Everest 2017: Summit Wave 2 Underway
Team after team pulled into Camp 2 on the Nepal side and Advanced Base Camp on the North. Some are going to the summit 18 May Thursday night looking to summit early Friday morning 19 May. The weather looks to be marginal and high winds are currently reported. Summit Waves To try to maintain some kind or […]
Everest 2017: Palpable Excitement as Teams Move Higher
Base Camp on the Nepal side is quickly becoming lonely as many teams left in the cold dark early morning hours of Wednesday 17 May, 2017. A similar pattern is occurring on the north, but several left yesterday. 10 or more teams left Everest Base Camp on the Nepal side this morning. I estimate 200 […]
Everest 2017: Teams Prepare for Huge Summit Push
Teams are on the move! Right on schedule, and it is now or never .. Instead of a peaceful calm, the lag time since most climbers competed their acclimatization rotations – as much as two weeks – is starting to wear on them But there may be other pressures at work. Maybe because weather forecasts […]
Everest 2017: Winds Return Thwarting Nepal Summits
After a few good days when the winds ignored the forecasts, they both came back into alignment. High winds now and expected for tomorrow. South Summit Turnaround Larry Daugherty climbing with Adventure Ascents turn back at the South Summit due to winds. Also with him was Thomas Wilkinson and Brandon Fisher. Larry posted: Mountain clearly in charge Our team […]
Everest 2017: Summit Wave 1 Recap
Wow, what a big night on both Everest and Lhotse, 16 May 2017. Many teams either ignored poor weather forecasts, believed the good weather forecasts or simply said they would go and take whatever the mountain allowed – many achieved their dreams early this morning. With so many summits, the fear of crowds is quickly […]
Everest 2017: More North Summits 16 May, South Underway – Update 3
The north side of Everest continues with solid results. Over 30 people are under way on the Nepal side tonight but no word yet on result or conditions. with 17 summits and probably more. The winds were supposed to pick up around noon on the south side, and perhaps the north but we’ll see what the climbers […]
Everest 2017: Ropes Reach Summit from Nepal Side
A team of Sherpas and members from the Gurkha team summited Everest from the Nepal side between 1:00 and 2:00 pm Monday 15 May 2017. They fixed the final section from the Balcony to the summit opening the route, in theory, for other climbers. The weather window is short and appears to close around noon on Tuesday […]
Everest 2017: Weekend Update May 14
The second week of May 2017 finally brought summits on Mount Everest. The ropes were set to the summit on the north side and then 18 people summited, including Lhakpa Sherpa with her 8th summit, a record for female climbers. Update: a small team of Sherpas may try to fix the ropes to the summit on […]
Everest 2017: First Team Summits on North, New Female Record
If there is one thing that is predictable about climbing Mt. Everest it is the unpredictability. Currently some teams must feel like a yo-yo. They were heading higher, but then retreated. However one team kept going and separately, a record was set for female summits on Everest. Record 8th Female Summit 44-year-old Lhakpa Sherpa set record with 8th […]
Everest 2017: North Side Teams in Full Summit Blitz – Update 3
With the ropes set on Thursday, 11 May 2017, the floodgates were opened and the teams on the north side are not waiting. Most seem to be aiming for standing on the summit between 14-17 May. This is a short post that I will update throughout the day if news comes in. UPDATE 3: 1st […]