원정 개요

C3 at mushroom ridge.

Adventure Consultants Ama Dablam 2008, led by Steven Moffat - 10 Nov 2008

The first summit party was successful: Kuehn, Flowerday, Stein, Westgate, Lhakpa Dorje and Sonam Tshering left C3 on 2 Nov at 8:30 am and reached the summit at 2:00 pm. They descended to C3 at 6:00 to 6:30 pm and next day were in BC.

The second summit party were not so fortunate. Wiedemer and Pemba Chhoti got to C2 on 1 Nov, but Wiedemer was moving too slowly, and Moffat told him he had to go down to BC on the 2nd, and he did under Moffat's escort from C2.

Other members:

Austin-Cheval reached C2.

Drotar and Hochreiter got to 6000m, but didn't like the threat of being hit by pieces of ice falling off the Dablam; they left on 31 October.

Haydock left on 1 November because of the fatal fall by French climber Jean Mary (on Daniel Petraud's team) the day before.

Ludwig reached 6000m and left on 1 November because of Mary's fatal fall.

McCall didn't like the threat from the Dablam, stayed at BC for the rest of the climbing period.

Sherpas:
Lhakpa Dorje, 16/11/61, Sanam, Gudel-4, Everest X4, Cho Oyu X3, Makalu X3,
Lhotse X1
Pemba Chhoti, 21/12/73, Thami, Everest 24/5/08
Sonam Tshering, aka Ang Sona, 1/10/86, Khunde, Everest 24/5/08