Arnold Coster

Our first summit team reached camp 3 at 8300m in good time.
Urs & Lakpha Sherpa, Gerry & Palden Sherpa, David Roeske & Lakpha Nuru
Sherpa are resting at the moment to get ready for their summit attempt
tonight. Depending on conditions they probably set off at 11pm Chinese time
and are hoping to summit on the 22nd in the morning.

The rest of the team is in Camp 2 at 7800m spending the night and climb to
Camp 3 the following day. Their plan is to summit on the 23th. Also this
team is doing well and all members reached the camp in reasonable time.

So I hope I can call in the first summits tomorrow morning, stay tuned.

Arnold Coster, expedition leader

This morning the first members and Sherpa’s left ABC for the summit push.
Urs, Garry, Moulay, Lakpha Sherpa, Dorje Sherpa andPalden Sherpa are
climbing to the North Col today.
The Plan is to summit on the 22th, but everything depents on weather
ofcours.
So far the weather forecast looks good and many groups are heading for the
summit right now.

Tomorrow our 2nd group will head off to the north col and is planning to
summit on the 23th, followed by a third group the day after. Tomorrow I will
let you know who is in the 2nd group, just in case somebody will shift
groups.

David Roeske and Lakpha Sherpa are resting on the col at the moment and are
planning to hook on the first summit group that is passing buy.

Everything is going well, so far, lets see what will happen in the next
couple of days.

Greetings,

Arnold Coster, Expedition leader

It’s still quite windy and not sure of the predicted window at 16-17 may is
pushing true.
The team is just relaxing in Base Camp at the moment and seven off us even
went down to the town of Shigar ar around 4100m.
We still want to wait and see what will happen with the first groups pushing
for the summit and avoid the crowds.

We probably go up to interim camp and then ABC on 14-15 may and aim for a
good window on the 20th earliest.

For now everybody is eating a lot, reading, resting, watching movies, so we
will be strong for the summit push.

Greetings,

Arnold Coster, Expedition leader