원정 개요

The Seven Summit Treks Lhotse expedition was a combination of several independent teams (1-2 climbers each). Seven Summit Treks provided transportation, base camp facilities and various levels of high altitude support (oxygen, high-altitude porters, tents, etc) as required and contracted for by each team. The individual accounts for each team are given below:


Anders Bergvall (Sweden)

Camps: BC(28/04,5350m),C1(03/05,6000m),C2(04/05,6400m),C3(14/05,7100m),
C4(17/05,7700m),Smt(18/05)
Left: 20/05/2018
Hired: 1
Term: Success (8:30 am)

Summit team left C4 at midnight. Weather was calm and clear. The couloir was snowy. Straightforward climb. They stayed about 10 minutes on the summit, then descended to C2, where they arrived at about 5 pm.

Oxygen: Taken and used from C3 to to summit to C3 by Bergvall and Vinayak.


Thomas Laemmle (Germany)

Camps: BC(16/05,5350m),C3(19/05,7100m),C4(20/05,7700m),Smt(21/05)
Left: 23/05/2018 trekking
Hired: 0
Term: Success (8:30 am)

Laemmle came by heli directly from Makalu on 16 May after summiting on 13 May. On 17/05 Laemmle went down to Lobuche to recover a bit. He received a weather forecast that the 21/05 would be a good summit day. That's why he descended from BC to C3 in one day, which took him 11 hours. He left BC at 3 am and reached C3 at 2 pm.

Laemmle left Lhotse C4 at 11:30 pm on 20/05. The conditions in the couloir were excellent. He spent about one hour on the summit and descended to C3, where he arrived at 11 am. On 22/05 he descended to BC and departed the next day.

Oxygen: Not taken, not used.


Yachiyo Suzuki (Japan)

Camps: BC(24/04,5350m),C1(5900m),C2(11/05,6440m),C3(13/05,7000m),
C4(15/05,7900m),Smt(16/05)
Left: 19/05/2018
Hired: 2
Term: Success (2 pm)

Suzuki, Fursang and Tenzing Norbu started from C4 at 8 pm on 15/05. They spent about 20 minutes on the summit and descended to C3, where they stayed the night. On 17/05 they descended to BC.

Oxygen:
Taken and used from C2 to top to C2 by Suzuki, from C4 to top to C4 by Sherpas.


Bian Lei-Chen and Chin Wui Kin were clients of Dreamer's Destination on the SST permit