Mt. Everest North Side 2024 Update: ABC to Summit!
May 19th – Advanced Base Camp
Our team honors Chomolungma with a Puja ceremony, to ask for a safe passage up the mountain. Puja is a Hindu worship ritual that involves showing reverence to deities, honoring guests, or celebrating events.
May 21st – Acclimatization hike to North Col Camp
Sherpa complete a second carry to North Col Camp with supplies for the upcoming summit push. IFMGA Guide Adrian Ballinger and client Graham Cooper spent the night at North Col Camp while the rest of the team completed their acclimatization hike to North Col Camp before heading back down to ABC for the night.
May 24th – Sherpa Push To Camp 2 and Camp 3
Sherpa carries gear up to 8300m and 7700m to set up Camp 2 and Camp 3.
May 25th – Advanced Base Camp to North Col Camp
11:43am – Team leaves Advanced Base Camp en route to North Col Camp, the summit push begins! Guide Carla Perez, Matt Greving, Ngima Tenjing and Gandavar Rai get a headstart on the rest of the team.
May 26th – North Col Camp to Camp 2
6am – Guide Carla Perez, Matt Greving, Ngima Tenjing and Gandavar Rai leave North Col Camp for Camp 2
9am – The rest of the group leaves North Col Camp for Camp 2
May 27th – Summit Push For Carla, Matt, Ngima, and Gandavar.
11:32pm – Guide Carla Perez, Matt Greving, Ngima Tenjing and Gandavar Rai leave Camp 2 for summit push. They will climb more than 4,000′ over the next 12 hours.
May 28th – Carla’s group summits, the rest climb from Camp 2 to Camp 3
3:17am – Guide Carla Perez, Matt Greving, Ngima Tenjing and Gandavar Rai leave Camp 3 to continue their summit push
10am – Guide Carla Perez, Matt Greving, Ngima Tenjing and Gandavar Rai summit!
11:07am – Rest of the team leaves Camp 2 for Camp 3 (27,000′)
7:28pm – Guide Carla Perez, Matt Greving, Ngima Tenjing and Gandavar Rai arrive back in North Col camp to stay the night after a very long summit push.
May 29th – The rest of the team summits for a 100% success rate!
7:07am – Guide Sid Pattison, client Myra Bertrand, and sherpas Kancha Nuru and Lhakpa Gelu on summit. Moderate winds, but nice enough to wait and see the others in 10-15 mins
7:30am – Guide Adrian Ballinger, client Graham Cooper, Guide Dave Morton, client Bruce Chapman, and sherpas Phura Tenzing, Pema Chhepal, Palden Namgye, Dorji Sonam, Pasang “Pso” Sona, and Chhewang Lendu all on summit!
7:55am – Guide Carla Perez, Matt Greving, Ngima Tenjing and Gandavar Rai come down from North Col Camp to ABC
10am – Guide Chad Peele, client Christopher Salomon, and sherpas Ngawang Tenjing and Tenzing Tashi summit!
100% success rate on Everest, 23 summits in total
Clients:
Myra Bertrand
Graham Cooper
Bruce Chapman
Matthew Greving
John Carney
Christopher Salomon
Guides:
Adrian Ballinger
Carla Perez
Chad Peele
Sid Pattison
David Morton
Summit High-Altitude Workers (HAW):
Chhewang Lendu
Dorji Sonam
Gandarva Rai
Kancha Nuru
Lhakpa Gelu
Ngawang Tenjing
Ngima Tenjing
Palden Namgye
Pasang “Pso” Sona
Pema Chhepal
Phura Tenzing
Tenzing Tashi
Non-Summit:
“Old” Lakpa Nuru
Phu Tshering
Laxman
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