Everest 2019: American Dead on Everest- Update
With huge crowds on Everest an accident occurred while descending between the summit and the Hillary Step, according to friends of the deceased. I was told by friends of the family that American Don Cash, 55 from Utah, apparently fell to his death on Wednesday May 22. He had two climbing Sherpas with him and was […]
Everest 2019: Summit Wave 4 Recap – First Tibet Summits
The rope team made the summit on the Tibet side and I’m being told there are no winds at Camp 3 as climbers are leaving for the summit on Wednesday night, May 22. Meanwhile over 200 people summited from Nepal on Wednesday morning. There were long waits reported from the Balcony to the South Summit. […]
Everest 2019: Summit Wave 4 Underway – Tiny Window – Update 3
Update 3: IMG reports summits: Ms. Daphne de Jong Netherlands Sonam Tashi Sherpa Nepal Ms. Fatima Deryan Republic of Lebanon Ang Karma Sherpa Nepal Kami Sherpa Nepal Mr. Julien Andre Maurice Laurent France Mingma Dorjee Sherpa Nepal Mr. Ralph Kisso Republic of Lebanon Sonam Dorjee Sherpa Nepal Thunang Lhomi Nepal Mr. Ole Petter Thunes Norway Pasang Kami […]
Everest 2019: Summit Wave 3 Recap, Wave 4 Underway 250 Expected
Looks like the winds have finally dropped. Teams for both the Nepal and Tibet sides report calm conditions and summit pushes underway. Wave 3 Recap: Summits!!! There were many summits Tuesday morning May 21. I know of these: Dawa Steven Sherpa and the Asian Trekking team made the top Tuesday morning: The Eco Everest Expedition 2019 team along with our Mananging […]
Everest 2019: Summit Wave 3 Summits and Delays – Update 1
Update 1: Summit Climb reports summits with no names or detail: “Today 1st Team reach at the Summit. Congratulations. Have safe down. 2nd Team reach at Camp 3. Wish them best up luck.” The winds on Everest are sporadic as the jet stream wobbles nearby. This is one of the toughest weeks in recent memory. […]
Everest 2019: Summit Wave 3 – Cold for 14 on Top
There were 14 summits of this next, and perhaps next to last, window of the spring 2019 season early Monday morning, May 20, 2019. Meanwhile literally hundreds of other climbers are moving up the gauntlet of camps getting ready for their time on the summit. Its Summit Madness! Big Picture First off, it cold on […]
Everest 2019: Weekend Update May 19
Last week was important for climbers across the Himalayan. The ropes were fixed to the summit on four separate 8000-meter mountains all on the same day, May 14, 2019. This was historic in that it has never happened on so many peaks on the same day. With that, many peaks, including Everest, were summited in cold temperatures but manageable winds. […]
Everest 2019: Next Summit Waves Prepare
Teams are staged at high camps just waiting for the green light from their weather forecasters. It is a mixed bag on both sides with howling winds on the Tibet side, and relative calm on the Nepal where the first summit may happen on Monday, May 20. The ropes are still not to the summit […]
Too Many Deaths – Opinion
A horribly disturbing trend is showing all the signs of coming to full life this spring season across the world’s highest peaks. Thus far, 10 11 people have died on six 8000-meters peaks in Nepal and Tibet. And the main Everest pushes have not begun. About 110 people have summited thus far with another 700 to 800 […]
Everest 2019: Quiet after 3 Successful and 10 Dead Thus Far
As the first weather window closed, there have been many summits but also a tragic series of deaths, missing climbers and frostbite and evacuations. The air temperatures have been very cold, even with manageable winds across the Himalaya the last few days. Big Picture As expected, once the ropes were set to the summits, climbers […]