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Morse and Cole left C3 at 2 am on summit day. They had already spent 3 nights at C3. Gregory was sick and wanted to wait and then weather was bad. Summit day started off clear, but cloudy later. They spent two hours on summit. On descent they had a white-out so they were very slow. Cole got to C3 at 9:30 pm. He could not find fixed ropes on Yellow Band. He went back up again and traversed towards the left and down climbed towards the C3. Morse got lost and tried to biv near Yellow Band. But got too cold and tried to find C3, where he arrived at 1:30 am on 26 April. Next day he saw that his fingers were frostbitten. He descended to C2 where the Japanese team helped him thaw his fingers. Cole descended to C1. On 1 May everybody descended to ABC. They left BC on 2 May. Morse left expedition together with Gregory and went back to Kathmandu. Cole and Fetzer went on to Everest North.

Fetzer got to just below the icefall at 6900m on 21 April. He abandoned expedition as he did not acclimatize well. He descended to ABC that day and stayed there for rest of expedition.

Gregory got to C3 on 26 April but felt very unwell. He thought he would recover but did not recover. He descended to C1 on 29 April together with Kami Sherpa. Kami Sherpa reached 7600m as he had fixed the ropes.