Evening of 4th May 

Good evening from the Himalayas, here’s the latest update:

Our Western Guided Team down climbed through the Khumbu Icefall today and are all safely back to Everest Base Camp enjoying hot showers, hearty, fresh food, and some well deserved rest. They will sleep well tonight at lower altitude. The team successfully tagged Camp 3, which means they are now fully acclimatized and will start preparing and planning for their summit bids.

Here are some pics from guide Josh McDowell of their rotations:

Meanwhile half our 1:1 Private Guided climbers (Marc B, Yinghong H) are snuggled up at Camp 2 along with Personal Sherpa climbers; Darragh O, and Aga O. Tomorrow they will head up the Lhotse Face to tag Camp 3. A day behind, looking to reach Camp 3 on the 6th May are the second half of that team (Blake, Riki, Pascale). They will then descend back to Everest Base Camp completing their second rotation.

Our 30 Day Speed climber Jesse and guide Tomi are also at Camp 2, they plan to do a hike above Camp 2, and possibly head straight up to Camp 3 tomorrow.

Guide Jangbu reported that, “climbing conditions, above (Everest) Base Camp have been best in the early hours, on overcast days and particularly now the winds have dropped.”

The team are doing extremely well and we are excited to complete our second rotations and have attention turn to the summit in coming weeks.

Have a great weekend!