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Elia Saikaly report:

Nims led his commercial team and left earlier than we did. His team was split up, flag team and commercial climbers. I was filming the one Kuwaiti climber with Pasang Kaji and [Phurba] Sonam who was Sirdar. 3 Kuwaiti members did not attempt the summit and remained at base camp. Perfect conditions, could not have been better. The film crew was there for 90-120 mins (Pasang Kaji and Elia Saikaly).

Al Shatti made the summit, but ran out of gas and could not descend all the way on his own. A helicopter long-lined rescued him and brought him to base camp.

On the commercial team:

Marie Desharnais from Quebec, Canada summited same day as us
Leonardo Avezzano from Italy summited same day as us
Russ Hornsby from California summited one day before
Iain Kuo from Wyoming summited one day before
Thomas Stanton from UK did not summit
Jeet Chatterjee from Canada (Indian) did not summit
Franco (Marco) Huerata from Mexico did not summit (injured his foot)

Team Kuwait also had 7-8 trekkers that left after 2-3 days at base camp. All made it to Ama Dablam base camp except one, Ali, who departed from Namche by heli due to respiratory illness.

Sandro Gromen-Hayes from UK was one of Nims’ guides/cameraman, he summited as well.

Sagar was a local Nepali cameraman hired to be there as well (he did not climb).

The rest were Sherpas.

There were at least 15 Sherpas, maybe more on the summit with the flag.

The flag team arrived on the summit in the early morning hours before sunrise and were on the summit 4 to 6 hours before the flag hanging ceremony at around 9 am.