13th May

Our teams are on the move! We have two waves of Everest and Lhotse climbers headed up onto the mountain for their summit bids. The first left yesterday morning and the second will leave tonight. We will continue to re-evaluate the weather in the coming days to time summit day with the best overall conditions.

The first team (including Bruce McC, Ben S, Schuyler E with Guides Robert J and Quique Claussen. Kevin C & Guide Ashish, Roberto T and Guide Pasang, Olivier and Guide Casey, Mark Postle, Tom L & Guide Tomi, Matt B & Guide Kami, Taylor G and Guide Naren, Kirstie E and Guides Anup and Kami Temba) moved to C2 this morning with Ludivine L, Damian M, Sam C, Jen W now at Camp 1 . There is still a bit of breeze up high but the jet stream has moved away from the summit and it is much less than over the past week.

Camp 2 will act as an advanced base camp for our teams before attacking the upper mountain. Our Sherpa team will finish stocking the South Col with oxygen, tents, etc over the next 2 days.

Our second team; Rajat with Guide Pega, Ott with Guide Dorjee, Lisa B with Guide Prakash, Travis with Guide New Tendi and Rohan with Sujan, will leave early hours of the morning (14th) to head up to Camp 1.

Julie M is at C2 finishing her final rotation and will come back to Base in comingi days to rest ahead of a 22nd – 24th May summit bid.

All is well with the team and wish us luck on our summit bids!

Cheers
CTSS Team