원정 개요

BC 16/04 5350m
C1 23/04 6100m
C2 26/04 6500m
C3 29/04 7050m
C4 18/05 7800m
Smt 19/05 by Wolput, Karma Gyalze and Nyberg at 8:55 am; Zajaczkowski,
Bojan, Mingmar, Ridar Bhote at noon.

Summit team left C4 at around midnight. It was very windy, but not cloudy. Straightforward climb. They spent about 20 minutes on the summit and descended to C4. Wolput, Karma Gyalze and Nyberg descended to C2; the two Polish with Mingmar and Ridar descended to C4.

Oxygen: C3 to summit to C3 by members; C4 to summit to C4 by Sherpas.

MacPherson reached C2. He left the expedition for personal reasons.

The remaining members were on the Lhotse permit for alpine-training purposes only:

Steiner reached C2. He felt sick and ran out of time and left expedition early.
Sorrell reached BC and suffered from pneumonia. Left early.
Tomorday reached C3 om 29 April. He never intended to summit.
Maidment was very sick and did not eat; reached C2 but was too weak to continue.
Harvell reached C3 on 29 April. He never intended to summit.
Hepburn reached C3 on 29 April. He never intended to summit