On the 2nd of November we had 7 team members, 2 guides and 4 Sherpa reach the summit of Cholatse! The summits occured in 2 waves 8:30 am Rory Mckenna John O’Conner Pablo Shaun Moore Mal Haskins (Guide) Sherap Sherpa (Sirdar HA Sherpa) Chhring Sherpa (HA Sherpa) Pema Sherpa (HA Sherpa) 2nd Wave about 10 […]
We’re back down at basercamp again after our final acclimation rotation on the mountain. The team went up to sleep at Camp 1 and have look at the rock towere that need to be negotiated before reaching the snowy (icy) soaring SW ridge that lead to the final summit ridge line. The tower itself is […]
We have been making our way up the mountian over the last few days as have the combined Sherpa Climbing team. The fixing team summitted the day before yesterday at 1430 with no wind and great conditions on the summit as our team were doing the first load crry to camp 1 to stock it […]
We arrived at Basecamp on the 23rd just as the afternoon cloud rolled in. The views as we came in were spectacular if a bit short. Comms from here are by Sat phone only so this means low res or no images Once here the team sorted themselves into their basecamp tents / sorted out […]