He survived – seven days without food, without bottled oxygen, without help. According to Nepalese media reports, early this morning local time, staff from the Sagarmatha Pollution Control Committee (SPCC) discovered Dawa Sherpa, also known as Hillary Sherpa, who had been missing until then, near the so-called Crampon Point in the Khumbu Icefall—the spot near…
Calm is returning to Mount Everest. The Icefall Doctors are bringing the aluminum ladders they used to span large crevasses along the route through the Khumbu Icefall back to the depots in the village of Gorak Shep. Staff from the Sagarmatha Pollution Control Committee are sorting through the trash at base camp, which is to…
Anja Blacha has achieved her goal for this spring season. As previously reported, the 35-year-old German mountaineer reached the summit of the 8,516-meter-high Lhotse a week and a half ago – without bottled oxygen and without a Sherpa guide. For Anja, it was the 13th eight-thousander she has climbed without a breathing mask. Now, the…
Just yesterday, I wrote that, miraculously, there had been no fatalities during the current rush to the summit of Mount Everest. Now, the Nepalese website The Tourism Times reports that at least two Indian climbers have died during their descent -apparently from high altitude sickness. Both had reportedly reached the highest point on earth at…
How many people can Mount Everest handle? This question comes up a lot these days, as one success story after another comes in from the world’s highest mountain. Yesterday alone, U.S. mountaineering blogger Alan Arnette – who keeps track of all the commercial teams on Everest like no one else – counted 270 summits. According…
As is now almost always the case on eight-thousanders, a rope-fixing team ensured the first summit success of the season also on Kangchenjunga. According to Mingma Gyalje Sherpa, head of the expedition operator Imagine Nepal, Dawa Gyalje Sherpa, Chheten Tashi Sherpa (both from Imagine Nepal), Buddha Bahadur Gurung (Elite Exped), and Sohail Shezad reached the…
He did it again. According to the Nepalese expedition operator Seven Summit Treks, Polish ski mountaineer Bartek Ziemski reached the summit of Mount Everest at 8,849 meters today without bottled oxygen and skied down from there to base camp. The 30-year-old had already made the first ascent of the fourth-highest mountain this spring season on…
Anja Blacha has taken another step toward her goal of climbing all 14 eight-thousanders without bottled oxygen. According to the expedition operator Imagine Nepal, the 35-year-old German mountaineer reached the summit of the 8,516-meter-high Lhotse today. Anja used the Nepalese operator’s base camp but climbed the world’s fourth-highest mountain without a Sherpa guide. Her summit…
I still remember well the reaction of Everest legend Apa Sherpa. When I predicted in 2013 – on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the first ascent of Everest – that it was only a matter of time before Apa’s then-record of 21 summit successes on the world’s highest mountain would be broken, the…
In the coming days, the normal route to the summit of Mount Everest will become crowded. Most commercial teams have set out to take advantage of the window of good weather expected in the coming days. It is inevitable that traffic jams will occur at key points along the route. After all, the Nepalese Tourism…
Thanks to a joint effort, the route up to the summit of Mount Everest at 8,849 meters has been secured. This morning local time, a twelve-member Nepalese rope-fixing team led by Mingtemba Sherpa reached the “Roof of the World.” It was the first summit success of this year’s spring season on the world’s highest mountain….
This is the second fatality of this year’s spring season on Mount Everest. According to Nepalese authorities, Nepalese climber Bijaya Ghimire Bishwakarma died Sunday morning in the Khumbu Icefall. The 35-year-old, who worked for the expedition operator Tag Nepal, reportedly fell ill at Camp 1 at 6,100 meters. He then died during the descent through…
The normal route on the Nepalese south side of Mount Everest is secured with ropes up to the South Col at an altitude of just under 8,000 meters. The ten Nepalese climbers responsible for this reached the final camp site on the route to the 8,849-meter-high summit yesterday, Friday, at 7:15 p.m. local time. Today,…
This is the first fatality of this year’s spring season on Mount Everest – even though the accident occurred below base camp. According to Nepalese media reports, Lakpa Dendi Sherpa fell and died last Sunday while hiking from Gorak Shep, the last inhabited settlement in the Everest valley, to base camp. The 51-year-old Nepalese guide…
Nepalese mountain guide Lakpa Sherpa has added another summit success to his collection on Makalu. According to the expedition operator 14 Peaks Expedition, “Makalu Lakpa,” as he is also known, led a group of seven – two clients and five other Sherpas – to the 8,485-meter-high summit today. For Lakpa, it was his ninth ascent…
