We began yesterday by visiting the construction site of the Khumbu Climbing School. Once complete, the school will house aspiring guides training with local and international climbing guides. Lakpa has often volunteered his time as head guide during the winter training sessions. Then we hiked a leisurely 2 hr stroll transversing the valley to Lama […]
After bidding farewell to the bustle and hustle of Namche bazaar, we hit the well trodden trail again towards Everest base camp. Though a familiar trail to us all, it is always enjoyable and was more so today with clear views of Everest and Lhotse off in the horizon. We hiked up to Mong La […]
If you would like to get another perspective about our adventure on Everest and Lhotse, also follow Chris Burke’s blog: www.chrisjensenburke.com/arriving-in-namche/ In this edition, Chris describes some of the other activities we got up to with the Australian Himalayan Foundation at a school below Lukla.
This morning we had a beautiful walk up to Khunda village and ridge Gong Go (4150m), a 700m climb in 2.5 hr above Namche. The views were brilliant, Ama Dablam, Everest and Lhotse, amongst other Himalayan giants. We are celebrating our first acclimatisation morning exercise with another round of Illy coffee, pizza and fish and […]
We had a good walk this morning. We reached Namche in 3 hours and headed straight to the comforts of Cafe 8848 for lunch, expresso coffee and beer battered fish and chips! Quite a change from the diet of Hillary on his successful Everest expedition.
The excitement is building. Pack bags and drums (tick), last minute errands (tick), fuel up on protein and desserts (tick tick), fly out to Lukla without hiccups (tick tick tick !!). And they are off. The team is a few days behind the Canadian Lhotse team who are already in Namche. It’s a chilly spring […]
Nice and cold in Lukla…down jackets already at 2800m. What’s to come at 8848m??!! The team is in Monjo tonight.
We’re on the eve of kicking off our Everest and Lhotse spring 2013 season! We’re super excited this year to be leading an expedition on Lhotse alongside our annual Everest trip. Lakpa, Angkaji, Jangbu, Dendi (long man), Chirring, Pasang, Rabin, Anil and others have finished establishing base camp at the foot of the Khumbu ice […]
Here at Himalayan Ascent, we are gearing up for another exciting Spring season. The boys are busy shopping, packing….and repacking as we squeeze equipment and food into sacks for flights heading east. This season Lakpa is leading an expedition on Kanchenjunga (8586m), the 3rd highest mountain in the world, which is located between the borders […]
We report an awesome day on Everest today, good weather and a strong team effort from everyone. Our team from Myanmar summited Everest this morning at 7.15am, Win Ko Ko and Pyae Phyo Aung, are the first to represent their country on the top of the world today! They were followed by Brazilians, Carlos Santalena […]