원정 개요

BC at CBC/IC on 20th at 5300m.

150m fixed rope: used 50m between Rock Band to summit; 100m between C1-C2.

On 8 May Lavrov, Raspopov and Skopin left together C2 at 01:00 hours. Raspopov reached to the summit at 11:00 hours, followed by Skopin, and last to arrive was Lavrov at 13:00 hours. Raspopov stayed on summit about two and half hours and Lavrov about 30 minutes. The team descended to C2 at 16:00 hours. They had rested at C3 for about two hours. Koreans climber Miss Oh offered Kazakhstani climber tea juice. Next day to ABC. The weather was not good. There was snowfall most of the time and it was cloudy. Raspopov saw Everest may be for 30 seconds; other members did not see Everest. Other members did not see Everest. The climbers who summited on that day were Korean Oh and Japanese.

The team returned to Kathmandu on 15 May. Lavrov and Skopin will leave on 18 May and Raspopov will leave on 23 May (he will visit Pokhara).

Kushnir left ABC on 5 May due to his business reason. He climbed up to C2 on 1st May spent the night there next day to ABC.

The oxygen taken by the team was for Kushnir. He was suppose to use it for his summit attempt.