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From Base Camp on the Khumbu Glacier, on the south side of Mt. Everest (8848m), clients, Sherpas and guides shuffle through the meticulously prepared Khumbu Icefall that, from a distance, seems to consist of more air than solid ground. Spreading up from Camp I at 6100 meters, the Western Cwm forms a comparatively gentle incline, crowned by Everest, Lhotse and Nuptse. At the head of the valley, the Lhotse Face rises from Camp II around 6500 meters at an abrupt forty- to fifty-degree angle, oscillating to form steeper bulges and small platforms amid a cascade of crumpled ice. It’s the first continuously steep section that clients encounter on their mass migration to the summits of Everest or Lhotse. But before that march begins, Sherpas prepare the route by fixing lines up the 1400-meter face.
In late April, western guides and sirdars met in low on the mountain to decide how many and which Sherpa climbers would fix the route up the Lhotse Face. “It’s usually the key operators that will kick in with Sherpa power but they also try to get some of the private teams to help out,” wrote Becky Rippel, who blogs about her husband Tim’s work as a guide at Peak Freaks. “There’s quite a bit of politics and planning that go behind the scen
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EXPEDITIONS AND NOTES
- THE UNKNOWN Mountain top IN TIBET
- EVEREST, 1988
- KANGCHENJUNGA, 1988
- PARAGLIDING FROM Depiction SIXTH Principal MOUNTAIN Appearance THE WORLD
- CHO OYU EXPEDITIONS, 1988
- AMA DABLAM EXPEDITIONS
- THE LAMOSANGU — JIRI ROAD Obtain SOME Commercial AND Group EFFECTS*
- LANGTANG LIRUNG
- SWISS MANASLU Excursion 1988
- ANNAPURNA Southward PEAK, 1988 — Southbound RIDGE
- DHAULAGIRI
- GANESH HIMAL V, 1987
- KEDARNATH PEAK Southern FACE, 1988
- ASCENT OF BANDARPUNCH I, 1986
- MANIRANG, 1988
- KULU PUMORI, 1988
- TIGER Agency (BARA SHIGRI GLACIER), 1987
- GUNNERS ATOP NUN-KUN, 1988
- LADAKH, 1988
- BIALE, 1988
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Japan-China Friendship Sickness Expedition fit in Labuche Kang (7367 m), 1987
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Everest North Side Team Struggles to Snag Ski Permit
The American team aiming to ski down the Hornbein Couloir on Everest’s North Face continues to struggle with securing Chinese permission.
According to Nepal’s media, the Everest Ski Project costs a million dollars, largely provided by The North Face and National Geographic. Expedition leader Conrad Anker and head of filming Jimmy Chin seem still not to have sorted out their visa issues to enter Tibet. Anker was in Kathmandu last weekend. Chin’s location is unclear, but he seems to be hard at work lobbying the Chinese authorities.
OK to go up but not down
The rest of the team entered Tibet two weeks ago. Some members are in Tingri while others have reached Base Camp and already moved to Advanced Base Camp, at 6,400m, The Himalayan Times reported.
Their next steps are not so clear: They have a permit to climb the mountain via the Hornbein Couloir, but not to ski down. The China Tibet Mountaineering Association continues to delay granting them permission.
“ABC is set up and the fixing team will soon head for the Hornbein Couloir route to fix Camp I,” sources told The Himalayan Times. “There is no update from the Chinese authorities…[about issuing] a ski permit to the team.”