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Report from Raman Hachoodan:

BC 12/04 5300m
C1 25/04 6100m
C2 26/04 6400m
C3 18/05 7200m
C4 19/05 7900m
Smt 20/05 by Hachoodan and Gelje Sherpa at 8:45 am
Smt 25/05 by Van der Merwe and Tenjen Sherpa at 4:30 am.

Hachoodan and Gelje Sherpa started their summit push from C4 at 9 pm of 19 May. They reached summit at 8:45 am of 20 May; it was windy and cold so they did not stay on summit just touched and descended to C4 where they arrived between 2 pm to 3 pm. They have video clip of summit. The photograph was taken below 50 to 60m of summit. Next day on 21 May the team went down to C2. Hachoodan was heli-lifted from C2 to Lukla on 22 May. On descent Gelje's one eye was snowblind. Ahead of this team there were four climbers descending from summit they cross above South Summit.

Hachoodan summited Lobuche on 25 April with Gelje.

Van der Merwe and Tenjen Sherpa at 4:30 am on 25 May.

Oxygen: Hochoodan used C3-summit-C3; Gelje Sherpa C4-summit-C4.

Sherpas:
[Pem] Gelje Sherpa, Waku-9, 03/05/73 (21/01/2030)
Tenjen Sherpa


Report from Wilmien Van de Merve:

BC 12/04 5300m
C1 19/04 5900m
C2 25/04 6300m
C3 05/05 7000m
C4 22/05 7900m (stayed there in jet stream wind on 23-24/05)
Smt 25/05 by Merwe and Phurba [Tenjen?] Sherpa.

Oxygen: C3-summit-C3, Sherpa same.

Record: 4th South African woman to summit Everest

Merwe and Phurba [Tenjen?] left C4 on 24 May at 19.00 hrs. They reached summit at 4:30 am of 25 May. They stayed on summit approximately 40 minutes. They got back to C4 around 9 am, rested there for about 2 hours to boil water and pack up then moved down to sleep at C2. On 26 May went down to BC.

Left BC on 28 May.

Merwe wrote in her email “Managed to summit Mt Everest on 25 May 2017, 4:30 the morning and in time for the most spectacular sunrise in all of God's creation”.

“It was truly something special and blessed to have had a clear windless day with views over Lhotse, Makalu and far into Nepal and Tibet”.

“This was such a privilege for her to let me admire the view from the top”