원정 개요

BC 02 Oct 4900m on a meadow
C1 06 Oct 5400m
C2 12 Oct 6050m
C3 21 Oct 6950m
Smt 22 Oct Abbuehl, Abromeit, Albert, Anderegg, Berger, Chow, Felix Daniel, Grosch, Gruen, Hefti David, Hefti Urs, Hiltz, Hoigne, Imboden, Imhof, Junga Gerhard, Kimmig, Kuendig, Mali, Marmet, Mende, Merz, Meyer Dominik Urs, Mueller, Pichler-Hefti, Raillard, Sailer, Sonnentruecker, von Wolff, Wullschleger and 18 Sherpas between 10 am and 4 pm.

Weather was good on summit day, however, the team experienced a lot of snowfall prior to the summit day. The prime reason for this expedition was to do medical research. The last camp was at such a high altitude because the medical team was still doing research up there.

The summiters left at various times between 9 am and 3 pm. The way to the summit took an average of about one hour; the slope was about 40 degrees and there was potential avalanche danger; however, the snow condition proved good enough for the team to go for the summit.

Some of the members stayed the night at C2 and some came directly down to BC (neither Kobler nor Hefti could verify who came down to BC and who stayed at C2).

According to Kobler, some of the Sherpas and locals built new paths from BC to about 5800m as there was nothing.

Oxygen: Taken and used by the researchers from C2 to summit to C3 (Abbuehl, Berger, Hefti, Hilty, Hoigne, Junga, Menda, Merz, Pichler-Hefti, Sailer, von Wolff).

Members who reached C2:
Martina [Vetter-]Aebli
Jana Bauer
Raphael Bauer
Ms. Roswitha Bolliger
Urs Bolliger
Nicole Bretschneider
Ms. Helen Alicia Engel
Ms. Jasmin Felix
Matthias Gutmann
Meinrad Heynen
Junga Ursina
Hans-Joachim Kabitz
Reinhard Kempf
Rene Kistler
Ms. Brigitte Kroni-Stakermann
Viktor Laube
Ms. Carole Meier
Dominik-Ivo Meyer
Ms. Eveline Perret
Reto Pezzoli
Christa Rothen
Erna Sarbach-Furrer
Gero Schulze
Ms. Tina Thenisch
Rebekka Thoni-Tobler
Markus Thomma
Ms. Stefhani Ulsamer
Andreas Vizeli
Ms. Brigitte Vogel
Matthias Widmer
Hansruedi Wirth
Beat Zahnd
Philipp Zenklusen

Members who reached C1:
Thomas Christoph Datwyler
German Escalante
Ms. Katy Rosenke
Ms. Deborah Salzmann
Michael Zenhausern

Members who stayed at BC:
Andreas Huber - did not intend to climb
Karl Kobler - BC manager, did not intend to climb
Fabio Lanzi - did not intend to climb
Stefan Urfer - was altitude sick and evacuated by helicopter early on in the trip

Summiting members:
Hans Peter Abbuehl
Lars Abromeit
Michael Albert
Peter Anderegg
David Berger
Stefan Chow
Daniel Felix
Ms. Ursina Grosch
Sybilli Gruen
David Hefti
Urs Hefti
Matthais Hilty
Philip Hoigne
Hans-Peter Imboden
Beat Imhof
Gerhard Junga
Martin Kimmig
Ms. Patrizia Kuenig
Ms. Claudia Mali
Ms. Elisabeth Marmet
Ludger Mende
Tobias Meyer
Dominik Meyer
Gianin Mueller
Ms. Jacueline Pichler Hefti
Claude Raillard
Jannis Sailer
Fidelis Sonnentrueker
Michael von Wolff
Christoph Wullschleger

18 Sherpas:
Dendi Sherpa, Taksindu-5, 22/1/83
Kanchha Lama Sherpa, Taksindu-2, 19/11/82 (4/8/2039)
Pemba Sherpa, Lelep-8, 24/1/76 (10/10/2032)
Lhakpa Gelu Sherpa, Taksindu-5, 23/8/89
Tembe Sherpa, Lelep-9, 51/4/87
Lal Bahadur Tamang, Ramche-5, Rasuwa, 21/6/83
Chhongba Sherpa, Taksindu-5, 13/4/66
Chhiti Thinduk Bhote, Hatiya-3, 25/8/81 (9/5/2038)
Chhewang [Rinzing] Sherpa, Taksindu-5, 2/8/71 (17/4/2028)
Karma Lama [Sherpa], Taksindu-3, 12/3/89 (29/11/2045)
Pasang Lama Sherpa, Taksindu-5, 30/9/77 (14/6/2034)
Ngima Sherpa, Taksindu-3, 8/5/86 (25/1/2043)
Landuk Sherpa, Taplejung-9, 27/3/87 (13/12/2043)
Tawa Chhiri Sherpa, Kurima, Solu, 26/1/79 (12/10/2035)
Mingmar Sherpa, Taksindu-6, 20/8/74 (4/5/2031)
Mitenjen Sherpa, Makalu-5, 30/7/69 (15/4/2036)
Jangbu Sherpa, Taksindu-8, 10/7/87
Ngima Thenduk Sherpa, Makalu-9, 31/8/73

The team's Swiss mountain guides decided to use the South Face since it climbs up gradually the mountain (with no descents in between as on the normal route on the west side) and is less steep (40°-slopes maximum). They and the Sherpas had to install 2500m of fixed rope to secure the climbers.

The schedule was split into two waves separated by a period of bad weather which brought lots of snow that the 22 Sherpas and foreign mountain guides had to break to make the track for the second successful wave.

On the latter wave, 69 members started on the 20th of October, reaching C1 or C2 and sleeping there. On the 21st of October, 30 members could reach C3, a high camp very close from the summit. On the 22nd, these same members reached the summit at 10 am from, then they went back to C2 the same day. The day after they went all back to the base camp.

The 39 other members reached the same high point at each wave, all of them sleeping at C1 or C2 then go back to the BC the next day (on 8th and 9th of October, then on the 20th of October). If the team's doctors expected a better result for them as well on the second wave, however it seems that these members hadn't enough time recover from their first attempt to be able to climb further to the top.

Huber and Lanzi didn't intend to climb. Karl Kobler stayed at the base camp during this expedition and will remain there to look after Andreas Neuschmid's next expedition on the same mountain.

Urfer reached base camp and never climbed further; feeling sick (respiratory problems, HAPE), he had to be heli-rescued from the BC and didn't come back to it.

Heynen got pulmonary embolism and had to be heli-rescued from BC to Kathmandu.