Acclimatizing on the Trail to Everest Base Camp The past three days have been busy and filled with some incredible hiking, camaraderie and mountain vistas. Following our last blog post, we spent two days hiking around and above the village of Namche. Our first day hike took us out on the trail towards Everest Base…
Whop. Whop. Whop. Whop. The concussive sound of a helicopter warming up surrounded us. It was go time. The rotors increased in speed and with a subtle bump in power the B3 lifted off the tarmac in Kathmandu. We pitched forward, increased the throttle and rocketed off towards the mountains. Below us Kathmandu was fading…
Namaste, The gang is all here! Over the past 72 hours our team has been off to an amazing start, clearing the first few major hurdles of an Everest Expedition in the era of COVID-19. Following some lengthy travel days for all members of our Everest team, we are excited to have the whole crew…
Everest 2021, here we come! Following a year of uncertainty, challenges and quarantines it is surreal to be sitting on a trans-Atlantic flight making my way towards Nepal. The months of training and staring at seemingly endless spreadsheets of expedition gear lists and itineraries are finally coming to a close. No longer will I be…
Meet the 2021 Mountain Trip Everest climbing team and follow their expedition dispatches as they travel to the Himalaya to climb to the top of the world!
Welcome to our Mount Everest Expedition dispatches for the 2021 season. It’s been a tough year for everyone, and it’s exciting to be looking forward to climbing big mountains again! After cancelling our 2020 Himalaya season, we’re headed back to Mount Everest in a couple of weeks and the preparation is well underway for the…
The team got down to Camp 2 around 9pm this evening after a very windy morning at the S. Col today. They wanted to get out of there early this morning, but were a bit pinned down due to high winds and gusts of over 50 mph. Our team is all good and everyone including…
Everyone is tucked in their sleeping bags in camp at the South Col after a successful summit day! They’ll get a good night sleep, and then begin their descent to Camp2, and continue to base camp the following day. We’ll get some more updates and hopefully some pictures soon, but just wanted to update that…
We just got the call from Nepal that our Everest Team reached the top of Mount Everest at 7:30 am local time this morning (May 22nd). One climber, Chris Hill, turned around and is back at the South Col already with several of our Sherpa guides, but the rest of the team stood on top…
The climbers ascended from Camp 3 on the Lhotse face through the “Yellow Band” and up the “Geneva Spur” to high camp at the South Col on Mount Everest today. After a couple of hours of rest, they woke up and started getting ready to head to the summit!! It’s a long push once they…