원정 개요

1 October summiters were second team on top that day, after Kondo's Japanese team. 2 October summiters were the first to reach top that day.

Both teams saw Everest from top. On 1 Oct, Jiji stayed on summit 1 hour to wait for Japanese members, but even so, she did round trip C3 to top to ABC in 13 hours.

Oxygen use: by 1st summit team T. Hashimoto, used sleeping in C3 night of 30 Sept, by all summiters climbing from C3 to top to C3 except Chinese women and Okuba, who stopped using it from top. Japanese slept that night in C2 while all Chinese want directly down to ABC. Okuba became blind in C2 and used oxygen again in C2 during the night, but recovered next day and stopped using it.

2nd summit team used oxygen sleeping in C3, climbing to top, down to C3; no oxygen below C3. Chinese slept in ABC on 3rd while Japanese slept in C2.