원정 개요

5 Oct left C3 at 4:40 am. Conditions were good. Broken trail. They reached col at 9:30 am and Kondo short-roped clients up to true summit. They left summit at 10:30 am. They intended to stay at C2 but not enough cooking gas so they continued to BC at 8 pm.

6 Oct team left C3 at 3:30 am. There was fresh rope on summit cornice. They arrived at 9:30 am on true summit, spent 10 minutes there and descended to C2 arrived at 5 pm. On 7 Oct to BC.

Suzuki reached 6000m on 29 Sept. He abandoned climb due to old age. It was exhausting for him. He descended to BC and stayed at BC for remainder of expedition.

Takagi reached 6400m on 2 Oct. He was with 6 Oct summit group. He had stomach pain and descended to BC same day.

Sherpas:
Pasang Kaji, Sotang, Solu, 14/2/81
Phurba Chhiri (aka Phurba Tshering), Kurima, Solu, 4/10/68
Dawa Chhiri, Kurima, Solu, 20/2/1967
Da Tendi (Da Tendi), Saframa, Lokhim, Solu, 28/5/1981,
brother of Phurba Chhiri