Autumn 2019 Himalayan Season: Nirmal Purja gets Manaslu, Will China Approve Shishapangma?
More summits on Manaslu taking the total to well over 200, but crowds seem to be a problem this year. Nirma Purja summited getting his 13th and is asking the public to contact China to help him get his Shishapangma permit. Everest – Still at EBC Both the Madison Mountaineering team and Andrzej Bargiel team […]
Autumn 2019 Himalayan Season: Manaslu Summit Mass!
Manaslu has taken center stage with over 150 summits while climbers are on hold on Dhaulagiri waiting for good weather and Everest waiting for the serac to fall. China still not responding to Nim’s request to climb Shishapangma. Everest – Climbing on hold Both the Madison Mountaineering team and Andrzej Bargiel team are still at […]
Autumn 2019 Himalayan Season: Summit Week!
With the route open on both Cho Oyu and Manaslu, the summitters are starting to pile up! Probably over 100 summits on Wednesday, September 25 across the Himalaya. China still not responding to Nim’s request to climb Shishapangma. Everest – Climbing on hold Garrett Madison of Madison Mountaineering team are still at base camp waiting […]
Autumn 2019 Himalayan Season: Everest Update
Climbers are on the move across the Himalaya hoping to summit in a few days. Everest is the exception with another team leaving and now only a handful of foreigners are at base camp hoping the serac conditions will clear up soon so they can make their acclimatization rotations, but it’s starting to get late. […]
Autumn 2019 Himalayan Season: Cho Oyu Summits, including Nim’s.
A quick update on the autumn Himalayan season after yesterday’s full update. We have the first summits of the autumn season by the rope team on Cho Oyu, including Nirmal Purja. Also, another team leaves Everest/Lhotse. Project Possible 12 of 14 Completed Looking to summit all 14 of the 8000ers in seven months, Nirmal Purja, […]
Autumn 2019 Himalayan Season: Trouble on Everest
After poor progress last week due to heavy snow, the skies cleared over most of the big peaks and excellent advances were made in route fixing and acclimatization programs. Look for summits early this week on Cho Oyu and perhaps Manaslu and Dhaulagiri. But on Everest, cloudy weather returned and an ominous hanging serac forced […]
Autumn 2019 Himalayan Season: Snow Stalls Progress, Clear Skies Ahead
With the big snow event this week, there was little to no progress on any of the big peaks. The ropes stayed where they were with no progress and the acclimatization rotations stalled. The Everest teams even thought it might be impossible this autumn but that seems to have changed. Now there are predictions of […]
Autumn 2019 Himalayan Season: Heavy Snow
All the peaks are seeing a bit of weather for a few days stalling progress. Heavy snow hit Manaslu, but that is normal. Also, snow on Cho Oyu stopped progress. The Nepal Weather service sent out an adivsory: It’s a bit vague. I assume they don’t want to be pinned down so if they are […]
Autumn 2019 Himalayan Season: Summits Soon!
We may see the first autumn client summits this week, especially on Cho Oyu and perhaps Manaslu. Meanwhile most teams have arrived at all the other 8000ers on the schedule this season in mixed weather conditions. The permit numbers continue to increase as the Nepal Tourism Department issued this update: Everest The weather is […]
Autumn 2019 Himalayan Season: Early Progress
Teams are making excellent progress early in this autumn season across the Himalaya. Everest Prices to increase and more record breaking attempts are underway. A busy time on the world’s highest peaks! Everest First off, a small bit of news on permit prices on the Tibet side. It is being reported that the Tibet Mountaineering […]