원정 개요

Approach: Pangboche, Lobuche

BC 12/04 5350m
C1 20/04 5800m
C2 22/04 6440m
C3 17/05 7100m tagged on 04/05
C4 18/05 7900m
Smt 20/05 by members and Sherpas between 7:30 am and 8 am.

Summit team left C4 at 1:30 am on 20/05. They decided to leave relatively late as there were not many people on the route. Weather was Ok. Not too windy, but cloudy; however, they got a view on the summit. Straightforward climb. All members descended to C4, where they stayed the night. The Everest team descended to C2 on 21/05 while the Lhotse team left for Lhotse at 1 am.

Lhotse summited on 21/05 by members and Sherpas at 7:30 am. After the summit the Lhotse team descended to C2, where they arrived at about 2 pm.

On 22/05 everyone down to BC.

Other members:

Courtney reached C2, but had very bad gastro problems back at BC. He had lost too much strength (he took 16 hours from BC to C2 on 3rd rotation) and decided to abandon his summit bid. He was helicoptered down from C2.

Farmanfarmaian reached C3 on 2nd rotation. During the summit push when he was at C2 he learned that his father was very ill. He was helicoptered out of C2 and left the expedition.

Mayer reached BC. He left the expedition very early due to problems with his business.

Ammerman was helicoptered from C2 because he hurt his hip on the Hillary Step.

Accident: Pemba Chhoti broke his leg when he was negotiating a ladder in the icefall on 22/04. He was carried down on a stretcher and taken by helicopter to HAMS hospital in Kathmandu.

Everyone left BC on 24/05 by heli.

Oxygen:
Taken and used from C2 to top to C2 by members
Taken and used from C4 to top to C4 by Sherpas.