Stories: Rapid Ascent
Mountain adventures create the best stories, and we want to share some of ours with you. Dive into Alpenglow Stories to stay up to date on expeditions in the field, read blogs, and get tips and tricks from guides.
Cho Oyu Expedition Updates
Our Rapid Ascent Cho Oyu expedition team is still feeling strong and currently enjoying a good night sleep at C1 (20,600’ / 6280m). Tomorrow they will continue on to C2…
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Cho Oyu Expedition update from Advanced Base Camp
Photos: Zeb Blais Our Rapid Ascent Cho Oyu expedition team is currently well situated and comfortable in advanced base camp (18,530’ / 5650m). Lead guide Zeb Blais has been reporting on…
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Cho Oyu Team Arrives in Tibet
Text and photos: Zeb Blais Since the vast majority of my expedition shopping was completed in Kathmandu, I spent the day exploring Lhasa. I’m meeting Brooks, my ski…
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Everest Reflections
This thoughtful blog was written by guide Zeb Blais two days after their successful summit of Mt Everest. Enjoy the report. The last few days have been full of triumphs…
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#EverestNoFilter Summit Day
At 10pm local time the #EverestNoFilter team of Adrian Ballinger and Cory Richards along with Palden Sherpa set out for the summit of Mt Everest from high camp on the North…
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Everest Summit for #RapidAscent Team
At 04:16 local time on May 22, the team of Bryan Osoro & Trudi Seiwald led by Chad Peele and Zeb Blais along with the Sherpa team of Panuru, Pasang…
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Everest North Side 2016 – Update May 18
#RapidAscent Team Moving Higher Alpenglow’s Rapid Ascent team has been enjoying life at Advanced Base Camp (21,000’/6400m) for a few days in order to fully recover and be ready for…
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Everest North Side 2016 – Update for May 16
Everest North Side Update May 16 If you’ve been following along via social media you have likely seen that both teams have been enjoying very stable weather with all team…
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Everest North Side 2016 – Update for May 4
Let me start this blog off with a little public service announcement for all the climbing fans out there. If you have a smartphone, do yourself a favor and download…
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Update from Everest Base Camp
Blog post from Alpenglow guide Zeb Blaise. We hit our bumps in the road getting to Everest Base Camp, but all in all we’re doing pretty well. Complaining about the…
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