원정 개요

BC 12/04 5350m
C1 21/04 5900m
C2 23/04 6440m
C3 21/05 7000m
C4 22/05 7900m
Smt 23/05 by all members apart from John Klein, Richard Cost, Arthur Muir and
Randy Perkins.

Summit team left C4 at 10 pm. Too many people on the route. They passed some people. Klein reached the South Summit at about 8 am and turned back as Sherpa guide (Dawa Phinjo) thought he was going to slowly. Rest of the team reached summit between 6 am and 7:30 am, spent 30 minutes and descended to C4, where they arrived at about 11 am. Spent the night there and descended to C2 on 24/05 and BC on 25/05.

Cost reached C1 21/04. He got altitude sick, returned to BC and took a helicopter out of BC.

Muir and Perkins reached C2 on 23/04. They decided that the climb was not for them. Might come back with more training and Sherpas and oxygen.

Ashok Tamang fell off the Lhotse face on 05/05 when he unclipped to get around some people. He fell a few hundred metres down the Lhotse face all the way to the bottom. He had a bad head injury and fractures in his face. He is likely to lose one eye.

Team left BC on 27/05 by helicopter.

Oxygen:
Taken and used by members from C2 to summit to base of Lhotse and
by Sherpas from C3 to summit to base of Lhotse face.