Everest Daily Wrap Up: Pushing 8000 meters
May 6, 2004 17: 15 EST
Baruntse image gallery. Two-man push on vertical Jannu Face. New Route on Everest North Face reaching 7750 meters, and several expeditions doing their final acclimatization trip.
Weather:
Nice climbing weather forecasted from Everest to Annapurna for Thursday and Friday. Winds expected to pick up during the weekend and hold. Read full synopsis at AdventureWeather.com .
Everest North:
North Face Direct: The “Siberia” group reached 7750 meters today. They will advance Friday towards 8000m. Read separate story .
Russian Adventure Team is heading back up again. Check out the Video (Windows Media Player) from the storm trashing team leader Abramov’s tent at ABC.
Brothers Tom & Ben Clowes of Adventure Peaks, just passed 7000 meters on the North Col.
Brothers Andy & Ian Prentice finally dispatched after 10 days of silence. They spent 3 nights above 7000m and are now heading down low to the villages for R&R and fattening up.
Flying Dutchmen will head up to C3 (8200m) early Friday morning.
Himex: Sherpas have established camp at 8000m. Most climbers, including Norwegian Cecilie Skog, have been acclimatizing above 7000m.
Everest South:
RAF Ted’s rumored summit attempt is still nothing but.
Mexican/Canadian Andres scaled the Lhotse wall despite high winds. Today the team reached the Geneva Spur (7900m) just below South Col.
Alpine Ascents: Climbing above 7000 meters Friday Morning.
Adventure Consultants: At C1. Moving to C2 Friday.
Big Walls:
Jannu. It really is vertical! Two man team pushing above 7000m. Check separate story from today .
Baruntse. Simone Moro’s almost live route description of “Ciao Patrick” with 6 awesome images. Check separate story from today .
Makalu:
British Services made good progress today and hope to establish C2 Friday.
Tom and Ben Clowes | Dutch paragliders | Mexican/Canadian | Alpine Ascents | Adventure Consultants | Prentice Bro.'s | British Services Makalu | HimEx | Russian Climb (Russian Expeditions) | Mountain.ru (Russian Expeditions)
Image of NorthEast Ridge Makalu courtesy British Services.
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