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Kuriki started his climb towards C4 from C3 at 5:05 am on 1 Oct. He reached 7750m at 1 pm. There was strong wind and weather was bad; then he turned around to C3 where he arrived at 3:40 pm. He spent the night there and next day to BC.

Rope: There was fixed line put up by Japanese Lhotse expedition to 7600m. Kadothani's Lhotse team also was supposed to cover filming climbing of Kuriki. The team had four additional Sherpas to fix the line on the route.