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Approach: Pangboche

Classic Team Flash Team

BC 17/04 5350m 02/05
C1 30/04 5800m 16/05
C2 02/05 6440m 17/05
C2 20/05 7300m 18/05 & 19/05
C4 21/05 7900m 20/05
Smt 22/05 21/05

Classic team: All summits between 5:30 am and 7 am:
Dave Watson (Leader) 22/05
Tetsuya Kaneko 22/05
Michael Ladstaetter 22/05
Jochen Greiner 22/05
Paul Guerra Rodriguez 22/05
Thais Herrera 22/05 (1st person of Dominican Republic)
Erich Walder 22/05 (youngest Austrian/youngest Italian)
Gernot Walder 22/05
Megan Rath 22/05
Rupert Hauer 22/05

Classic Team left South Col at 11:11 pm on 21/05. Perfect weather and conditions. From C2 to the summit the conditions were perfect. There was more snow on the summit ridge than in previous years. The Hillary Step was a stair case and the rock was bone dry. The Kenyan who died was on the top of the Hillary Step. One of Furtenbach’s guides gave him O2, but was unable to save his life.

The team did not have to wait at the summit ridge. The average time they spent on the summit about 20 minutes. Everyone descended to C4, had a short break and continued to C2 where they arrived between 5 pm and 8 pm.

Flash team:
Klaus Ullrich 21/05 6 am
Ran Krauss 21/05 5 am
Scot Parsley 21/05 5:30 am
Ladan Espandar 21/05 3:30 am Lhotse 22/05 at 5 am
Maximus DiSesa 21/05 5 am
Zheng Wang 21/05 5:30 am
Steffen Bixby 21/05 4:30 am
Darius Henderson 21/05 7 am
Kyle Brundage 21/05 6 am
Hoeskuldur Tryggvason 21/05 5 am Lhotse 22/05 at 5 am
Herbert Wolf (Deputy Ldr) 21/05 5:30 am Lhotse 22/05 at 5 am
Benjamin Lieber (Guide) 21/05 3:30 am
Stuart Robertson (Guide) 21/05 7:30 am

Flash team did not have an acclimatizion rotation as they all pre-acclimatized in an hypoxic tent at home. They left the South Col at 10 pm. Members stayed between 20 and 30 minutes on the summit and descended to C2.

Henderson helied out from C2 due to snow-blindness.

Lhotse Flash team stayed at South Col on 21/05 until midnight and climbed Lhotse from there. They summited at 5 am and descended to C2 after the summit. On 22/05 down to BC.

Ardavan Farmanfarmaian was ONLY attempting Lhotse. He reached C3, but abandoned due to personal reasons.

Members who did not make it to the summit:
Keith Simmons personal reasons, BC only
Joseph McGinley personal reasons, did not reach BC
Meinhard Platzer personal reasons, 6700m
Stuart Webber personal reasons, did not reach BC
Lajos Olah personal reasons, did not reach BC
Kheiry Sammakieh health reasons, BC only
Fernanda Maciel (Athlete), unsuccessful no-O2 attempt, 7400m

Both teams left BC on 24/05 by heli.

Sherpas above BC: 53

Oxygen:
Taken and used from C2 to top to C2 by members
From C3 to top to C3 by Sherpas.