원정 개요

C1 at North Col

In her bid to reach the summit, Ms. Funahashi left C3 at 10:00 pm (Nepalese time) on 17 May with four Nepalese "Sherpas": Tul Bahadur Tamang, Jaya Prakash Rai, Hari Bahadur Chaulagain and Kitap Sing Tamang. Ms Funahashi was very slow despite her liberal use of bottle oxygen, and when she had gained only 200 vertical meters in three and a half hours (to 8500m at 1:30 am on 18 May), she turned back. It took her another three and a half hours to get back to C3 (at 4:30 pm), where she slept that night.

She now decided to abandon the climb. She descended to C1 on the 19th, to ABC on the 20th, to BC on the 21st, and left BC to return to Kathmandu on the 22nd.

Ms. Funahashi used 12 bottles of oxygen continously from 6800m up to 8500m and down to and in C1 at 7060m. The Nepalis used it in C2, from C3 to 8500m, to but not in C2.

Nepalese "Sherpas":
Hari Bahadur Chaulagain, 23/12/71 (10/9/2028), Makalu-2, Everest 24/5/08
Jaya Prakash Rai, 28/3/74 (15/12/2035), Makalu-6, Makalu 11/5/08
Kitap Sing Tamang, 30/3/76 (14/5/2033), Deusa, Solu, no 8000ers
Tul Bahadur Tamang, 3/10/66 (17/6/2023), Deusa, Solu, Everest X2, Cho Oyu X2,
Dhaulagiri I X1, Manaslu X1