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C1 at top of Icefall
C2 in Western Cwm
C3 on West Face of Lhotse (low C3)
C4 on West Face.

27 May 3 am, left C3 for top: Contreras, Ogwgn, Watts and Pasang Dawa Sherpa. On top at 10:00 am and down C4 only Watts, while other 3 summiters to C2 (too dangerous for Watts to stay in C3 and not she would not get to C2, but be tempted to stop in C3). Simone Moro's Kazakh member summited at same time as this party; Spanish afterwards.

Chang stopped climbing after Babu Chiri's death. Cowen left expedition in April: found this effort too soon after Everest in 2000. Markey left BC 17 May because he had no time to stay after 20 May.

Inaki Ochoa of Ben Webster's Everest South (Canada) climbed to C3 with this expedition and then attended to Webster's small team. When he saw there obviously no time for summiting both Lhotse and Everest because of weather, he chose to summmit Everest and did so with Webster's team.