Everest 2023 Season Summary and Coming Home
The 2023 Everest spring season is over, with some records to take pride in and others to be avoided. If there were one word to summarize the season, it would be chaotic or perhaps deadly. This spring ...
2 Kesä 202339min
Everest 2023 Summit Moments and the Descent
Monday, May 22nd, was a windy but good day for summits and records. About fifty more people summited, advancing the season total to close to 500. The season could end this week as winds will become to...
22 Touko 202332min
Everest 2023: Everest 2023:166+ Summits, 6th Death and Carlos Soria, Rescue & Climbing to the Summit
With masses of climbers on Everest, today we saw over 100 more summits bringing the season total to over 166 and the sixth death of the season. There were many "records" set as well, some in the behol...
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Everest 2023: First Commercial Summits and Climbing to the South Col
It looks like ten people summited Everest in the leading part of the first wave. Scores, if not over a hundred, are staged at Camp 2, waiting for the South Col camps to be fully stocked. The weather c...
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Everest 2023 Weekend Update May 12
As forecasted, the winds have let up, allowing the rope team to continue fixing it to the summit. This will open the mountain for scores for clients with one or more Sherpas in support. Look for a bus...
11 Touko 202316min
Everest 2023: Interview with Garrett Madison from Everest Base Camp
The #Everest2023 season is taking shape as teams continue to acclimatize with rotations to Camps 1 and 2, with some tagging Camp 3 at 23,000 feet or 7,000 meters. In this interview with Garrett Madiso...
2 Touko 202314min
Everest 2023: Weekend Update April 30
Everest teams are doing the usual acclimatization rotations but are seeing heavy attrition that will ease crowding concerns. There's a new level of base camp luxuries that might be beyond the pale for...
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Everest 2023: Weekend Update April 23
Weekend Update While teams are as high as Camp 2 on Everest, most of the attention was on Annapurna, where one climber died, and two other climbers were miraculously rescued. Heavy snow hit Everest, ...
23 Huhti 202323min
