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sticky: Everest 2012 Team Locations

Alan Arnette — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 22:32:35 +0000

Welcome to Alan Arnette’s Everest 2012 coverage. The teams listed below have announced their 2012 plans or usually run an annual Everest expedition. Contact me to add your team. I do my best to estimate each team’s location throughout the season and track their summit success rate. My coverage is based on my own experiences, continue reading

Profile of an Everest Sherpa

Alan Arnette — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:24:36 +0000

Sherpas are the backbone of Everest. But who are these people and what motivates them? I have now climbed with Sherpas multiple times and my admiration increase with each experience. That said, Sherpas are real people with all the strengths and weaknesses of everyone else. They get altitude sickness, have bad days, bad moods and continue reading

Lhotse – the Other Everest

Alan Arnette — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 22:20:29 +0000

Every Everest climber, actual or armchair, recognizes the term “Lhotse Face” as a difficult section leading to the Death Zone at 8,000 meters. What some people often miss is that the Face is part of the 4th highest mountain on Earth, Lhotse standing 27,940 feet or 8516 meters. Sitting in the fake Starbucks in Lukla continue reading

Everest 2012:: Interview with Cian O’Brolchain

Alan Arnette — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 15:06:21 +0000

This interview with Cian O’Brolchain is part of an ongoing series of interviews I do each season with Everest climbers. Not the famous, sponsored ones who get plenty of publicity but the regular people, who have full time jobs, full time families in many cases and climb for the love of climb. Please send me continue reading

Everest 2012 Interview with the Axe

Alan Arnette — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:20:44 +0000

This interview with Grant Rawlinson is part of an ongoing series of interviews I do each season with Everest climbers. Not the famous, sponsored ones who get plenty of publicity but the regular people, who have full time jobs, full time families in many cases and climb for the love of climb. Please send me continue reading

Everest Base Camp – Himex Style

Alan Arnette — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 13:00:30 +0000

I’ve been in many base camps but I knew I was somewhere special when I was told “… and this is our garbage tent.” Welcome to Everest Base Camp, Russell Brice style. In 2011 while climbing Everest, I spent the afternoon with Brice getting to know this man and how he runs his expedition base continue reading

Everest 2012: Interview with Bill Burke

Alan Arnette — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 13:00:48 +0000

This interview with Bill Burke is part of an ongoing series of interviews I do each season with Everest climbers. Not the famous, sponsored ones who get plenty of publicity but the regular people, who have full time jobs, full time families in many cases and climb for the love of climb. Please send me continue reading

Everest 2012: The Summit Routes

Alan Arnette — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 14:00:05 +0000

Along with my annual coverage of Everest, I always update information on the climbing routes on Everest. I am surprised that there is always something new. For Everest 2012 season, I want to discuss an acclimatization technique that is becoming more common on Nepal expeditions, the climb of nearby Lobuche Peak. Lobuche Acclimatization Lobuche is continue reading

Communicating from Everest – 2012 Update

Alan Arnette — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 13:00:32 +0000

I receive many questions on how I did my live dispatches for the 7 Summits so I put together this short tutorial for anyone wanting to communicate during an expedition from anywhere on our planet. While staying in touch is mandatory and part of an expedition for me, some people want to get away from continue reading

Words: 2011

Alan Arnette — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 18:43:00 +0000

In the last days of 2011, I wanted to write about my last 12 months of climbing mountains to raise awareness and research funds for Alzheimer’s, but I couldn’t find the words. The emotions and gratitude are immense. I could only come up with the following in hopes it expresses my feeling to everyone who continue reading