Trip Reports

Mount Everest Team – Back at Camp Two!

Yesterday evening (Thursday, May 6) the team made it up to Camp 1 in lightly foggy weather. Warm weather has been prevailing here in Base Camp, but four inches of snow was reported at Camp 1. The team did very well and the path through the Icefall was significantly more straightforward than the first rotation.…

Update from the Everest Team at Base Camp

It’s another beautiful sunny morning at Everest Base Camp, before the start of some rain and snow this afternoon. With closely monitoring the forecast, we have planned our next rotation to be for tomorrow, May 5. We have been watching the weather very closely now as Sherpa, guides and climbers prepare themselves again to move…

Mount Everest Team at Camp Two

Lead Mountain Trip guide Jacob Schmitz called in an update for the team from Camp Two at 6400m, just shy of 21,000′. The route between camps has an elevation gain of about 1,500′. The ascent usually takes between two and three hours and is 1.7 miles, and feels very strenuous in the thin air. The…