Everyone is back at base camp today. Unfortunately, the snow conditions prevented the fixing team from completing the route to the summit. The risk of avalanche is still too high. To protect our climbers and guides, we’ve pulled everyone off the mountain to await better snow and wind conditions. Although Allan, Mark, Michael, Raul and […]
It’s happening for Team A! Allan, Mark, Michael, Raul and Stephen are currently at Camp 1 on their climb up to the summit. Jangbu is part of the fixing team and led the route to Camp 2.7 today. However, the conditions aren’t too great for the final summit ridge climb. There is still too much […]
Allan, Mark, Michael, Raul, Stephen and Sumit dropped back to base camp today to make room for our Team B of Jack, Noel, Tom and new arrival Kate McGuiness (Australia) to have their go acclimatising at 5800m, Camp 1. Jack and group will return back to base camp tomorrow. Our campsite is humming with activity […]
Speedy Angkaji and Dendi went up from base camp this morning to set up Camp 2. Following them was the team, who had a good rotation to Camp 2 today. Without any crowds, they reached there in good time. Angkaji and Dendi dropped back to base camp. The others are continuing their acclimatisation programme at […]
Trudging through snow, it was a hot slough to Camp 1 today for our Team A, which now consists of Allan, Mark, Michael, Raul, Stephen and Sumit. Pemba the camp cook also made the climb to support the climbers. Yesterday, Jangbu and Chirring, checked the new ropes set by another team up to the Yellow […]
The team are settling back at base camp after spending the day hiking up close to Camp 1 (5600m). The glare off the snow has left everyone looking very tanned and feeling too warm climbing. There is over 1m of snow at Camp 1 and still around 50cm at base camp. Tomorrow our guides will […]
The Pangbouche lama has arrived at base camp to conduct our puja for the season on Ama Dablam. Finally the weather has cleared for us to move ahead with the climbing schedule, which is now slightly delayed due to the previous days of snow. Tomorrow we will take our first acclimatisation climb to Camp 1 […]
For the last 48 hr, more than 1.5m of snow has fallen at base camp leaving it looking like a winter wonderland in autumn. The team are hunkered down at camp, fueling up and enjoying a heated tent. Today several members stepped out to break trail through the snow to make phone calls up a […]
The weather has been brilliantly sunny till now, as Nepal including the Khumbu await a deluge of rain and snow from Cyclone Phailin as it moves inland into India. To avoid walking through the expected snowfall, the team are speedily hiking to Ama Dablam base camp at this moment to reach there by lunch time. […]
The team started off early today, keen to hit the trails and the big hike up to Namche. About half way up, they were rewarded by clear views of Everest!! However, the views and great weather did not distract and slow them down… by 10.30am they were drinking Illy coffee at Cafe 8848 in Namche! […]