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18 May summit team left 4 at 7:30 am. It was very cold and windy. Climb was straightforward. They spent 1/2 hour on the summit. They descended to C4 and arrived there at 7:30 pm. On 19 May descent to C2; 20 May to BC.

Zerain and Fernandez left C4 at 7:30 pm on 18 May. Fernandez turned back at 8000m due to cold feet. Zerain carried on to summit on his own and reached summit at 5:30 am. He descended all the way to BC after summit and arrived at 4 pm.

Cadiach did not climb with group and stayed at BC during their ascent. On 23 May he reached C4, but due to bad weather, he turned back and descended to C3 same day. He stayed there for 3 nights and waited for weather to improve. On 26 May to BC.

Reketa reached C3 on 17 May on acclimatization trip; back in BC he caught stomach bug and stayed there.

Ribas reached C3 on 20 April on acclimatization trip; after this he stayed at BC due to lack of energy.


Rodrigo Peron - 7 Jan 2010

Rodrigo Peron reports that Patxi Goni has stated in the Spanish press (in Diario Navarra on 7 Jan 2010) that he and Koke Lasa stopped 150m short of the summit due to exhaustion and high winds.


Ferran Latorre on Kangchenjunga summits (via Eberhard Jurgalski) - 2 Feb 2010

"From the Spanish people, only four of us summited: first myself, after Asier Izaguirre, Juanito Oiarzábal and Edurne Pasaban, together with one Sherpa (the other Sherpa from our team, turned around about 8400m). Finally, Kinga Baranowska topped about half hour after Edurne. I topped about 3 hours before of my friends and went down till 8400m, the place I call 'Bivouac stone', where I waited to watch out my friends.

Coque Lasa and Patxi turned around on the Bivouac stone. Alex Txicon unfortunately turned around few meters before the Rappel and came down to my position to watch out our friends. Juanjo Garra, who was climbing together with Kinga Baranowska, turned around just before the Rappel, when they crossed at that point with Edurne's team who was going down from summit. In a slow walk, the Rappel is about 20-30 minutes from summit. Kinga followed alone to the summit. She has very good footage from the summit. She really was tough to follow alone so late!"