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BC 09/04 5350m
C1 20/04 6000m
C2 21/04 6400m
C3 11/05 7100m
C4 12/05 7900m
C5 13/05 8400m (below balcony) by Xia Bo-Yu, Lu, Dawa Gyalje, Kilu Pemba
Smt 14/05 by Nima Jangbu Sherpa (sister of Mingma Gyalje), Lok-Kee Siu, Tamding
Sherpa, Nima Dorjee, Gao Li at 7 am, Liu and Pasang Gombu Sherpa at
7:15 am, Lees, Dendi Sherpa at 7:30 am, Lu, Xia Bo-Yu, Yan, Kami Rita,
Dawa Gyalje Sherpa, Kilu Pemba at 7:45 am.

Xia Bo-Yu, Lu, Dawa Gyalje, Kilu Pemba left C5 at 9:30 pm on 13/03; the rest of the summiters and Mingma Gyalje and Song set out at 8 pm from C4. Xia climbed some of the sections on all fours. The weather started off very calm, but got very windy when they reached the Balcony. Lightning going on in the distance. When they reached the summit ridge, winds died down again. They spent between 5 and 20 minutes on the summit.

Everyone descended to C4, where they arrived between 1:30 pm and 8 pm.

On 15/04, everyone descended to C2. During the descent on the bottom of the Lhotse face, Lok-Kee was hit by a big block of ice (half the size of a fridge) on his left leg (at about 7:30 pm). Tamding was with Lok-Kee when it happened, but fortunately did not get hit. The rescue group arrived at around 10 pm. They wrapped him into a plastic sheet and carried him to C2, where they arrived at about 3:30 am on 16/04. Lok-Kee, Xia and Yan were evacuated by helicopter on 16/04. Lok-kee has a broken calf, Xia and Yan had slight frostbite on their hands. Lu also took the helicopter as he was accompanying Xia.

Song reached to about 8600m. He turned back due to the weather and had problems with his oxygen mask.

Mingma Gyalje (not using oxygen) stopped at the South Summit to wait for his team members and support the group. Apparently he stayed there for about two hours and then descended to C4. He developed a bad chest infection during the night and got quite weak. He descended to C2 the next day and was helivaced to Kathmandu. He is at CIWEC clinic with a bad chest infection, maybe HAPE.

Lees, Liu, Song, Nima Jangbu descended to C2 on 16/02. They took a helicopter back to Kathmandu the same day.

Nima Jangbu had summited Lhotse on 29/04. After scaling Everest she went to Kangchenjunga and summited on 23/05 at 6:20 am.

Oxygen:
Taken and used from C3 to top to between C3 and C2 by members and Sherpas.

Sherpas:
Tamtin (Thomting, Tamding), Beding, 20/12/1974
Ngima Dorje
Dawa Gyalje
Kilu Pemba
Dendi Sherpa (long hair) (x5 Everest, x1 Kangch)
Kami Rita (Everest x16)
Pasang Gomba (Everest x6)

Tea slso climbed Lobuche East on 14/04