May 29, 2006 - High Winds stop progress
After a spurt of summits this week, high winds have hammered teams on both sides. Adventure Consultants reports one of their best summit performances in years with 12 climbers on the summit. It appears that having "The Guy" there made a huge positive difference! Cotter summited as well -a rarity these days for one of the major's owners to climb. Congratulations Guy. Everest Peace Project culminated a 4 year effort to get multiple nationalities on the summit at the same time - 10 made it!. Congratulations Lance and team - well done!
Ken Stalter and some of the SummitClimb team reported "The winds were very high and it was not safe to go higher." Two members did make however.
Himalayan Project/DXCP have hunkered down at ABC on the north. They are looking 3 days before another attempt.
I am not sure where the MountainLink team stands after their comments on Wednesday "We have enough spare oxygen and spare food that in case we don't get to go on the 20th, we can go on the 21st. We have pretty much committed that that's our window. We're heading for a summit then on the 20th or the 21st. If it goes beyond that, we're done and we'll back out." AAI are stopped their climb and have returned to the South Col. Another excellent decision by one of he best, in my opinion, Dave Hahn.
More later today.
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