April 20th
We hope you are enjoying your weekend. Here are some updates from our teams in the Himalaya.
Our Everest Base Camp team flew by helicopter back to Kathmandu and are all safely checked into the Hyatt, enjoying hot showers and the creature comforts of town. What a great group of adventurers. We’ll be sad to wave farewell to such a great group as they head home in coming days but congratulate them on their incredible success and strength.
Our Gokyo trekkers reached Gokyo yesterday and explored the region today. Seeing the Lakes and Peaks in this spectacular region. They will begin their downtrek tomorrow.
Our 3 Peaks team have summited Island Peak (19th April) and in doing so rounded out an incredible 3 mountains in under 3 weeks. In a low snowfall season, the routes have been more technical and challenging and we are so impressed by all they have achieved. A special shout out to both Monika Z & Faris R who pulled off 3/3! Today they moved from Chukkung to Pangboche and tomorrow they will drop further down to Namche. We looking forward to seeing them in KTM in coming days.
Our Lobuche team did a big day with an 8.5hour down trek from Pheriche to Namche today. Tomorrow is their last day on the trail back to Lukla where they will fly back to Kathmandu to celebrate.
While we are preparing to say farewell to many of our climbers as they round out their trips, we welcome into Kathmandu our 30 Day Speed Ascender Jesse who arrived safely today. He is awaiting some delayed baggage but once that has caught up to him, he and Guide Tomi will heli up to Pheriche and move into Everest Base Camp.
Our Everest summit team have kept busy over the past few days keeping their acclimatization by doing hikes up Pumori and keeping skills current with lots of practice of ladder crossing, fixed line ascension and rapelling on the glacier by camp. They will now start preparing to head uphill on their first rotations now that the icefall route is fixed and open. A delayed start but not a big deal in the scheme of the expedition.
All is well in the Himalaya – we hope you have a great weekend.