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Everest 2013 Team Locations – sticky

Alan Arnette — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 23:35:19 +0000

Welcome to Alan Arnette’s Everest 2013 coverage My coverage is based on my own experiences, research, sources, and public information. I try to provide insight and interpretation of the activities ranging from routes to weather to the challenge of climbing Everest. Latest Everest News – May 25, 2013 A major collapse in the Icefall on continue reading

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Everest 2013: Cleaning the Mountain, 9th Death

Alan Arnette — Sat, 25 May 2013 14:44:30 +0000

As most clients are in Kathmandu or even home, the Sherpas continue to work hard on Everest. This end game on the expedition is called ‘cleaning the mountain’. Simply put, it means that everything they brought, they take back down. That goes for tents, oxygen bottles, ropes, anchors, garbage, everything. Throughout the season even the continue reading

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Everest 2013: More Summits, It is Not Over!

Alan Arnette — Fri, 24 May 2013 15:40:38 +0000

Climbing Everest is all about timing. And a few climbers are proving that they can sneak in a few summits after the masses have left. On the North, the second team from SummitClimb summited 19 in what was termed ‘high winds’. Part of their team was Leifur Orn Svavarsson, reported to be the first Icelander continue reading

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Everest 2013: Summit Wave 8 Recap

Alan Arnette — Thu, 23 May 2013 12:02:17 +0000

If this was the last night for Everest 2013 summits, it was a good one. But I learned a long time ago that just when I think it is over, there are a few more teams sneaking up! We had over 50 summits Thursday morning. First up is 80 year-old Japanese Miura Yiuchiro summits, setting continue reading

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Everest 2013: Summit Wave 7 Recap and Summit Wave 8: Update 3

Alan Arnette — Wed, 22 May 2013 12:25:47 +0000

Update 3 80 year-old Japanese Miura Yiuchiro summits, setting an age record. Over 50 summits on reported early Wednesday morning by Asian Trekking Dave Hahn, Benegas Brothers and Tim Mosedale with their remaining teams summits. This was Dave Hahn’s 15th summit, a non-Sherpa record. Himex put 22 on the summit. Update 2: Asian Trekking reports continue reading

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Everest 2013: Summit Wave 6 Recap and Summit Wave 7 – Update 3

Alan Arnette — Tue, 21 May 2013 13:28:15 +0000

Update 3 Mountain Trip just sent this note out: We just received a call from the summit, we have 5 on top right now! 7.25am, Yahoo! Conditions sound perfect, very light winds, no crowds. Sounds like things started out very windy and have improved through the night. That’s super good news here. We have Manoj continue reading

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Everest 2013: Summit Wave 6 – Update 2

Alan Arnette — Tue, 21 May 2013 00:38:16 +0000

Update 2 The students from Sanawar India are starting to summit. They are 16-17 years-old: Hakikat Singh Grewal, Guribadat Singh, Prithvi Singh Chahal, Ajay Sohal, Shubham Kaushik, Fateh Singh Brar and Raghav Jonneja We have summits from IMG (10 summiters), Asian Trekking and Adventure Consultants (16 summiters) at 4:15 AM Nepal time. Conditions are reported continue reading

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Everest 2013: Summit Wave 5 Recap

Alan Arnette — Mon, 20 May 2013 14:38:49 +0000

With the good weather continuing, Everest is seeing a steady stream of climbers. A reported 135 climbers are pushing on Monday night and hoping to summit on Tuesday morning just from the South This long window had been predicted for quite a while so it is nice to see it develop. May 21st has been continue reading

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Everest 2013: Weekend Update, Summit Wave 5 – Update 2

Alan Arnette — Sun, 19 May 2013 15:35:35 +0000

Wave 5, Update 2: IMG reports 21 on the summit this morning including the US Air Force team climbing. Conditions are noted as cold and windy. Jagged Globe reported 3 more on top: Nacer Ibnabdeljalil, Guy Munnoch and Guy Manning summited this morning with Sherpas, Dawa Gelji, Tashi and Karma. We believe this is the continue reading

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Everest 2013: Summit Wave 4 Recap

Alan Arnette — Sun, 19 May 2013 05:27:50 +0000

Saturday night was busy on Everest and by Sunday morning there were over 100 summits from both sides. It will take while to know the exact numbers but the climbing conditions were reported as good as it gets. 120 climbers, both Sherpas and Westerners, were reported to be climbing Saturday night just on the South continue reading

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