Lots of summits last night: Rob and James made it and became the youngest Brits to summit Everest. They summitted along with several other climbers with Adventure Peaks. The first summits of the season for the south happened with Jagged Globe with 6 on top. They reported a late summit due to deep snow. It had been snowing on and off all week. Also a Korean team and Swiss climber, Benedikt Arnold, and Sherpas made the South.

The "official" report for south side summits come from the Nepal Ministry of Tourism and is posted quickly on their site. Every Nepal expedition (and Chinese) have a Government employee called a Liaison Officer (LO) who spends much of the expedition at basecamp. It is the LO's responsibility see that rules are followed and to report any accidents, etc. but also to watch over the official summit report. Of course they are solely dependent on what the Sherpas and climbers say since they never actually climb!

On the north, there were multiple summits as well (the summit is not so big, I wonder if they took turns getting their photos?). The Everest2006 team put 6 on top and Adventure Peaks put 7 in total. As for our ski team, there were actually four skiers: Tomas Olsson (Sweden), Tormod Granheim (Norway), Olof Sundström and Martin Letzter. All summitted and skied down on two separate routes - black diamond, I believe :)

On yet another sad note, British climber David Sharp's death was confirmed ont he north side. It is unclear how and when it happened according to a report on mounteverest.net.
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