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From Tim Mosedale's website:
http://www.timmosedale.co.uk/ama_dablam/ama_dablam_3.htm

Unfortunately at the beginning of November 2014 a climbing Sherpa was killed and 3 clients injured when some ice fell from the right side of the Dablam. We arrived at Base Camp with this news very much at the forefront of our collective minds and we observed the state of the Dablam on a daily basis through the telescope. We also gained quite a lot of corroborating evidence from other teams about the state of the ropes (great), the state of the route (great) and the state of the route from the old C3 to where it past the Dablam (dodgy). We witnessed quite a few calvings and sheddings of blocks of various sizes and there were doubtlessly others that we didn't see.

Despite the fact that clients from other teams were still summiting I was not convinced that this meant that the route was safe (enough) for our team to progress beyond C3. In particular I was concerned that if anyone were to get injured whilst making an unsupported summit attempt that I would still need to get the climbing Sherpas in to action to go and assist - thereby rendering any solo action pointless.

To that end it was decided that we would not be attempting the summit at all in 2014 - a decision that was respected by the team and Sherpas alike. We then changed tack slightly and some folk went home, some went trekking and I took some round to Island Peak.