Sherpa

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A message from Adrian last night confirmed that all is well on Lobuche. A storm on Sunday kept everyone hunkered down in Moraine Camp, but at 5pm the clouds miraculously cleared and everyone climbed "perfect neve" to the 6000m summit in ideal conditions. All are now down, resting another day at camp before making their way back up, where they will spend two nights acclimatizing on the summit. David Tait and Adrian will leave a day ahead of the rest in order to have three nights up high. Meanwhile, the Himex Sherpa are making major progress on the upper mountain.

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Khumjung Main Square turns into Cricket Pitch

Four members and four Sherpa summited on November 6th under clear skies with cold temps. There was virtually no one else on the mountain, making for an excellent time on top. The group was feeling good and decided to push their descent all the way back to BC, rather than stopping for the night at Camp 1. The Sherpa cleaned the lines and everyone is down safely. The team will spend the next couple of days wrapping things up in BC. 

After a brief snowy interlude, perfect weather has returned to Ama Dablam and the Khumbu Valley and we are ready for our summit push! We are making a plan to leave base camp over the next 2 days for Camp 1, where some members will take a rest day while the rest of us put another cleaning day in on the route, this time focusing on Camp 2 trash and old ropes between Camp 2 and the Grey Tower. From there we'll move to our Camp "2.7", just below Camp 3 on the Mushroom Ridge. We choose to camp in 2.7 to avoid the risk of serac fall from the Dablam onto the camp.

Himex has done it again

I would like to start this Newsletter by saying how much we missed Aaron on our summit push on 1^st October. Unfortunately our great team member had to leave the expedition by helicopter after sustaining an injury to his shoulder during our descent from our final acclimatisation trips. Furthermore, I would also like to mention that we are very proud our esteemed leader, Russ, for completing his 14^th 8,000m peak. He has climbed Everest twice, Shisha Pangma twice, Cho Oyu 9x and now Manaslu.

Himex Takes Home Manaslu Cricket Trophy

Horizontal Limits

Here comes the rain again

Despite Phurba Tashi’s prediction for better weather with the Buddhist calendar having moved from summer to autumn a couple of days ago, we are still stuck at base camp waiting for the precipitation to finally come to an end. “Well, at least it stopped raining,” said Alan when we woke up to heavy snowfall on Sunday morning.

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Power shortages, musical delights and a cricket match