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David Lavie started with South Asian Trekking but was inserted with the Monterosa Treks expedition (which did indeed manage everything well in BC) whose other members were:

Johann Wenzl (Austria) who climbed alone like him without Sherpas and oxygen
4 Polish people led by Zbigniew Bak, who just climbed with one Sherpa

Ascent schedule:

David Lavie second acclimatization trip from the 20th to the 22nd of September where he slept to C1 then C2. The 22nd after he reached C3 he felt too tired to sleep there, so went back to BC.

David Lavie started for the summit on the 28th of September and went from BC to C2 for sleeping. He felt sick in 29th morning and had a rest on C2 during the day instead of going to C3. At 9 pm he felt he had recovered enough to climb during the night. He reached C3 at 11:30 pm. There he met a lovely Spanish girl called Eva; along with her he continued to climb for C4 and they both reached at 5 am on the 30th September. Here he felt too cold and tired with too much wind, he spent 1 and half hours in a tent. Eva was waiting for him.

At 6:30 am with less wind and sun, both decided to start again. Davie Lavie stopped at 7800m (according to him the plateau presented some steps which hid him the summit) at 10:30 am due to exhaustion, whereas Eva apparently continued to the summit. Here David Lavie knew he would not have enough time on his schedule to recover from his bid (at least he would have needed 4 or 5 days) more the good weather forecast had to end very soon after the 1 October, so he abandoned the climb. The same day he went down to C2 that he reached between 3 and 4 pm and where he slept. The day after, on 1st October he was back to the base camp and the day after already back to Samagaon.

At the beginning David Lavie wanted to ski down from the summit. But he didn't carry skies at all during his summit attempt, he had difficulty to install the camps on his own. For that reason David Lavie did not install C4 and even C3. David Lavie believes that climbers without oxygen and Sherpas should start directly from C3.