A few of the many summits to note include Rhys Jones has become the youngest Briton to master the 7 Summits. His father, Alan, wrote me "Rhys has claimed the british record as the youngest to climb Mt MacKinley and we believe the youngest person to summit Vinson. The previous British 7 Summit record was Jake Meyer aged 21yr and the World record holder Dannielle Fisher also aged twenty yr but older than Rhys. Rhys completed his final summit with Jagged Globe mountain leader Kenton Cool and were the first team to summit Everest from the South this year." I find it amazing that these records now come down to time of birth!

An excellent summit report is from the Everest 2006 team on their Blog. Well worth a read a it provides some details of the north route not normally discussed. Well done guys!

The season is not over with DXCP/Project Himalaya now looking at a summit on Thursday, May 25. And of course the British Army is still on the West Ridge. They cancelled their attempt when they discovered dangerous snow conditions that most likely would result in avalanches along their route. No word on when they will try again. Stay tuned since this will be a first and make for some exciting reading and viewing of pictures and videos on their site - the best one this year.