April 17th, 2024
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- Climbers in the Icefall at 3am by moonlight (Ang Jangbu Sherpa)
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- Breach in moraine impounding Saba Tsho glacial lake with Kusum Kanguru behind.
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- On the trail to Tagnak (Eric Simonson)
Good news from Everest Base Camp. Ang Jangbu and Phunuru report that the IMG team is doing well and that the Icefall Doctors have managed to push the route past the bottom of Nuptse. Apparently it is very icy this year in the Icefall (go figure) and there are several big crevasses and ice walls in the lower part of the Western Cwm which made it more difficult than normal to get to Camp 1 and then to get around more obstacles near Nuptse. Above that it is a straight shot up to Camp 2. We have IMG sherpas Sonam Tashi and Nima Sona heading up tomorrow morning to stake out our campsites at Camp 1 and Camp 2.
Over in the Hinku Valley, IMG leader Porter McMichael reports the team had a nice hike today up to Thagnak (about 14,300 ft), near the head of the Hinku Valley. Tomorrow they will take an acclimatization hike up to see Sabai Tsho, the glacial lake that was hit by an avalanche in 1998 which caused the moraine to break and a huge flood to sweep the Hinku Valley. Alls’s well in Nepal!