원정 개요

1 May established C1. All went to C1. May 2 rest day. May 3 all slept at C1. May 4 all rest at C1. May 5 all carried gear to C2 except Rigby, Swinney and all slept at ABC. May 6-7 rest. May 8 all slept at C1. May 9 all slept at C1.

May 10 all slept C2 except Swinney and Rigby. May 10 Pemba Sherpa and Mingma Sherpa established C3. May 11 all except the 2 slept at C2. May 12 all returned to ABC. May 13-16 rest. May 17 Arthur, Spencer and Stacey went to C1. May 18 the 3 went to C2. And Newbigin (joining from Group I), Robb, Swinney, Benegas went to C1. On 19 went to C3 the first group of [team] to summit (they started at 4 am). The 3 summiters (Arthur, Spencer and Stacey) went to C2. The summiters reached ABC on May 21.

On 20 Benegas reached C3. On May 21 started at 2 am, reached 8000m. It was too windy, so returned to C2. On May 22 Benegas returned to ABC.

On 19 May Robb went to ABC, Newbigin and Swinney went to C2. On May 21 went to C3, on May 22 tried summit went up 50m was too windy and returned to ABC on same day.

Cleaned mess left by Canadian, US, Catalan Basque expeditions: Burned everything. Was last expedition to leave Cho-Oyu.