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Everest 2008: Sherpas Summit Mt. Everest From the South Side
2008-05-20 17:14:00
More Breaking News?More Breaking News?More Breaking News This Everest 2008 Update is being featured at my NEW address on the web. The site is the same, but THE ADDRESS has changed. Please Redirect to the new update by clicking HERE. Then Go to the HOMEPAGE and be sure to UPDATE any BOOKMARKS or previous ...
Everest on Ebay: The Apa and Lhakpa Gelu Sherpa Collection
2008-03-23 06:09:00
While browsing around on Ebay today, I came across a couple of interesting items. The first is the hat worn to the top of Mt. Everest by Apa Sherpa in 2007. If you will remember back to last May, The Adventurist followed Apa as he was setting out on a record breaking run ...
EVEREST 2008: Nepal Slams the Door?Follows Tibet with Everest Closure
2008-03-15 06:01:00
Earlier this week Chinese officials sent out a memo to climbers wanting to attempt Mt. Everest this season. That memo effectively shut down any prospects of teams trying to summit from the northern Tibetan side of Mt. Everest. Today Nepal has followed suit with their own restrictions. I mentioned a couple of days ago ...
Fall 2007 Everest Expedition
2007-09-08 05:04:00
ExWeb is reporting a few more details on the only Expedition taking place this fall on Mt. Everest.  The Expedition, as I mentioned in a previous post, is a group of nine climbers from Thailand. “The Unlimited Thai Spirit” Expedition to Mt. Everest is being conducted in celebration of the 80th birthday of Thailand’s King. The Expedition ...
Conrad Anker and Apa Sherpa Joining Forces?
2007-07-21 16:30:00
Conrad Anker, the man who became world famous for discovering George Mallory’s body on Mt. Everest, will be teaming up with his wife and Apa Sherpa to host a special “An Everest Evening.”  This event, scheduled for August 9th will take place in Snowbird, Utah. Apa Sherpa, who holds the record for climbing Mt. Everest the ...
K2 Summits, New Route on Gasherbrum II, and more..
2007-07-21 05:26:00
Over the past week most of my time has been used covering the recent Michael Reardon tragedy.  This is not to say that nothing was happening though, but I felt that I had the opportunity to do something for Michael and his family and friends that other sites just couldn’t do. To get back up to ...
Mt. Everest Pioneer, Ernest Hofstetter, Dies at 95
2007-06-09 03:55:00
Ernest Hofstetter, a leading member of a Swiss Expedition team that nearly summited one year before Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay made the first successful summit of Mt. Everest in 1953, has died. Upon Sir Edmund Hillary’s successful summit the following year, Hillary sent the swiss team a note telling them that they had done ...
The Adventurist Sparks a Nerve?.Twice?And You Speak Out!
2007-05-30 19:22:00
This past week has seen two pretty controversial pieces here at The Adventurist take center stage.  The first one titled “David Sharp HAD to Die” was recently mentioned on ExplorersWeb and has seen well over 2,000 people stopping by to check it out in the past few days alone. The David Sharp issue continues to be a ...
Everest 2007 Update: More Details on Two Rescues As Well As Another Missin
2007-05-23 17:25:00
Yesterday, I reported on two High Altitude Rescues taking place.  One was of a Nepalese Woman who had been stranded on the South Balcony, supposedly left behind by her team.  I now have more details on this incident. I recieved an anonymous tip yesterday identifying the climber as Usha Bista.  I have held on to this ...
Everest 2007 Update: Two High Altitude Rescues, More Summits, and a Possib
2007-05-22 21:47:00
Over the past day, two amazing rescues have occured at high-altitude, one each on the North and the South.  One rescue is cause for concern though, as we will see: Female Nepali Climber Abandoned at 27,500 Feet An Unknown female climber with the Democratic Nepal Everest Expedition was seemingly left for dead by her own team near ...
Sherpa Climbing Legend, Pemba Doma, Dead at 37
2007-05-22 20:11:00
Some tragic news coming from Lhotse today.  The Sherpa community has lost one their dear climbing legends, Pemba Doma Sherpa. Pemba Doma Sherpa was a two time Mt. Everest Summiter.  She completed her first ascent of the world’s tallest mountain on May 19, 2000, climbing up the North Ridge Route.  Two years later, on May 16, ...
Everest 2007 Update: Summits, Summits, and More Summits
2007-05-21 21:39:00
Yesterday I posted an Interview with David Tait as well as Alan Arnette’s BIG Announcement–both of these items were pretty big news.  I didn’t post my usual update yesterday with all the previously mentioned stuff going on…so guess what.  That means this is going to be one HUGE update covering the events that has been ...
The Adventurist: The David Tait Interview Pt. 2, Post Everest 2007
2007-05-21 01:17:00
In March of this year, The Adventurist had the priviledge of interviewing David Tait before he set off to climb Mt. Everest.  David’s ambitions were made very clear.  He wanted to become the first person to ever “Double-Traverse” Mt. Everest in the same season.  He was well prepared.  David had summited Mt. Everest previously in 2006 ...
Gene Genie at Gene Sherpas
2007-05-20 07:13:00
The seventh edition of Gene Genie, the blog carnival on genes and gene-related diseases, is up at Gene Sherpas: Personalized Medicine and You. Earlier this month, I posted an article quoting George Weinstock, co-director of the Human Genome Sequencing Center at Baylor College of Medicine. He was contemplating whether the technology to sequence individual genomes will ...
Everest 2007 Update: David Tait Calls Off Double-Traverse, Bandits on the
2007-05-18 02:50:00
I really have some mixed emotions reporting this news today and have waited in order to get my own thoughts in line.. David Tait Calls Off Double-Traverse David Tait has called off his Double-Traverse of Everest after successfully summiting from the North to the South side two days ago.  I will let David explain from his own ...
Everest 2007 Update: More Summits Being Reported as Day Three of Everest S
2007-05-17 14:06:00
Day three of the massive push to the summit is coming to an end.  These three days have seen well over 150 summits occuring both on the North Ridge Route, as well as the South Col. Reported summits today include the whole Ice8000 Expedition as well as the London School of Business Team. From the Ice8000 Expedition: Everyone ...
Everest 2007 Update: Summits and Death on Everest
2007-05-16 19:18:00
Everyone knew that lastnight was going to be as busy or busier than the night before on the world’s highest mountain.  Here is a rundown to get everyone up to date on the happenings on Mt. Everest lastnight. Sadly, Three People Have Died It is being widely reported that there were a few deaths on Everest lastnight.  ...
Everest 2007 Update: Three Summits From North and First South Summits?
2007-05-16 05:01:00
Three Summits from the North have been confirmed at this time.  The three people involved are Carey Gibson, Dan Tebay, and Lhadpa Sherpa. Also from the South, EverestNews is reporting a pretty reliable source as saying Mountain Madness has reached the Summit by way of the South Col Route and Supersherpas aren’t far behind. Apa and Lhakpa ...
Everest 2007 Update: Mass Exodus For Summit, as Day 2 Summit Push Begins
2007-05-15 21:34:00
Day two is shaping up to be busier than today as far as Everest and the push for the summit go. From the North Side, there will possibly be another 50-60 people attempting the climb up the North Ridge Route, and from the South, many are expecting the same. Here are the teams to look for: From the North The ...
Everest 2007 Second Update, May 15, 2007: 50 Summits Reported Today..David
2007-05-15 17:28:00
David Tait Update David Tait has made it to lower ground on the South Side, arriving at Camp 2, along with his Sherpa Phurba Tashi, after successfully reaching the summit of Mt. Everest around 1:30 am this morning. Adventure Consultants, The team that will run David’s logistics on the South, are reporting that David and Phurba Tashi ...
Everest 2007 Update: DAVID TAIT SUMMITS, SummitClimb Summits 6..and more h
2007-05-15 12:32:00
David Tait Makes First of Two Summits!!  At 1:30 am this morning I recieved a new dispatch from David Tait. “To all you happy followers out there ? David reached the summit at about 1.30 am this morning!! Through the fierce noise of the wind, he sounded jubilant as you could imagine. Fingers crossed as he makes his ...
Everest 2007 Update: Pemba Dorje Sherpa and Furba Sherpa Claim Everest Summ
2007-05-11 07:59:00
A couple of days ago I mentioned that two Sherpa from the Indian Expedition up the North Side had claimed the summit.  Here is some more info on these two successful summit attempts. Pemba Dorje Sherpa claimed his 6th Everest Summit with climbing partner Furba Sherpa.   Here are the details from EverestNews: “and put  portraits of Apostle ...
Everest 2007 Update: Summit Quest is On!
2007-05-11 02:30:00
I am guessing that quite a few of my readers are  familiar with Alan Arnette’s great site, as well as Kraig’s over at The Adventure Blog.  Well both of these great sites have mentioned that there just may be a summit attempt in progress, as we speak, taking place on the South side. Alan Arnette goes ...
The Everest Chronicles: Rob Hall, Scott Fischer, and the Worst Tragedy in E
2007-05-10 15:58:00
May 10, 2007.  It has been 11 years since tragedy struck Everest in a blinding storm that claimed the lives of world-reknown mountain guides Rob Hall and Scott Fischer. Eleven Years. Their story is one of much debate even to this day.  The tragedy is discussed on websites and forums around the world with one thing being ...
Everest 2007: Inside Himex Basecamp, From The Outside
2007-05-08 04:51:00
Nick Heil, a journalist for Outside magazine, has recently joined up with Russell Brice and his Himex team at Everest Basecamp and will be chronicling the Himex Everest Expedition this season for Outside magazine.  All of this is taking place in the Outside Blog. Some quick observations about Nick Heil’s Blog about this Expedition. First, is the ...
Everest 2007 Update: North Side Still Acclimatizing, South Side Getting Re
2007-05-08 02:51:00
I have been away for a couple of days due to a family emergency.  So as the process goes, I decided to head over to Alan Arnette’s great site to see what he has been reporting the past couple of days first. It seems like everything has started to take a nice “normal” pace as teams ...
ExplorersWeb Taking a Stand?The Adventurist: A Call for Change
2007-05-04 18:02:00
ExplorersWeb has published a very strong editorial today about people dying on Everest…Here is a question they pose: “The questions is though, how many times will we have to witness a Kazakh, a Pole, a Spaniard or any other of the world’s foremost climbers rescue people in the death zone while we keep hearing amateur climbers ...
David Sharp HAD to Die on Everest
2007-05-03 17:17:00
People die on Mt. Everest.  That is a fact.  In fact until the last few years the statistic was that for every four people to make the summit, one would die.  In recent times (the 2007 Everest climbing season involves close to 1,000 individuals) that number has grown to one in twenty. Last season brought the ...
Maxut and Vissily?s Fight For Survival On Everest
2007-05-03 02:05:00
This week the two climbers from Kazakhastan, Maxut Zhumayev and Vassili Pivtsov claimed two of the first summits of Everest this season.  Their plan was to summit Everest with no O2 and unassisted, but as we are getting ready to see sometimes a plan doesn’t always work out… Maxut and Vissily began to have problems once ...
Update on Roger Kehr?s Condition?.
2007-05-01 21:19:00
As many of you will know, I made a post earlier about the SuperSherpas Assistant Basecamp Manager, Roger Kehr getting evacuated from Everest.  Roger was around 14,500 ft. in elevation when his pulse dropped to 35.  The average pulse is 70 at sea level.  The scary part about this is that the higher you climb, the quicker your ...
The Death of a Sherpa: A Question Answered
2007-05-01 18:05:00
On a post I recently made entitled: Everest 2007: Dawa Sherpa Airlifted Off Everest, Camp 2 Damage, and Avalanches Galore! I made this comment: “Speaking of Dawa Sherpa, the first casualty of Everest this season, it seems that his body is being brought off of Everest. To me, this seems strange. I always thought it was customary that if ...
SuperSherpas Assistant Basecamp Manager, Roger Kehr, Evacuated from Everest
2007-05-01 17:16:00
Roger Kehr, the Assistant Basecamp Manager to the SuperSherpa Expedition has been evacuated off of Everest due to health reasons. This is some disheartening news to myself, personally, as I have been in contact with Roger a few times and have gotten to know him.  He is a great guy and will be dearly missed with ...
BREAKING NEWS: SEVEN SUMMIT MT. EVEREST
2007-04-30 21:30:00
This news is coming in from all over the place right now…ExplorersWeb, Alan Arnette, The Adventure Blog and EverestNews is all reporting on the first Everest summits of the 2007 season today. First reports were that the two man team of Vassily Pivtsov and Maxud Zumaev had reached The summit of Everest at 6 pm Chinese ...
Everest 2007 Update: Dawa Sherpa Airlifted Off Everest, Camp 2 Damage and
2007-04-30 01:36:00
The South Col Route Update  Over the past couple of days many teams on the South side of Everest have been concentrating on tidying up their tents, preparing their packs for the venture higher, and in a word..resting. One thing that is being mentioned quite frequently though this weekend is the abundance of avalanches around the area. First ...
The Adventurist: Double Exposure
2007-04-29 03:30:00
It has been brought to my attention that this site, “The Adventurist”, is once again being mentioned in a couple of different places around the climbing community. As always, it is a great honor to be recieving recognition for something that is so enjoyable to do–as well as to know that I do have so many ...
Pat Hickey Reports Khumbu Icefall Back in Service
2007-04-28 02:17:00
As many expeditions and Everest News Sites were reporting earlier today, The Khumbu Icefall become the victim of a very early morning avalanche. As teams were setting out to cross the Khumbu and make their way to Camp 1, it was quickly noticed that they would have no chance of crossing today.  The avalanche completely wiped ...
Bill Burke on Dawa Sherpa?s Fatal Accident
2007-04-28 01:46:00
Bill Burke climbing with SummitClimb this year on the South Side of Everest had this to say about the Death of Dawa Sherpa on Everest yesterday: “It’s Bill calling from Camp 2 and there has been a terrible accident on the Lhotse face, which is where I was headed today. A Sherpa from one of the ...
Everest 2007: First Death On Everest Update
2007-04-28 00:29:00
A press release sent to Everestnews.com today updates the the circumstances surrounding the recent death of a Sherpa climber on Everest yesterday. The Sherpa’s name was Dawa Sherpa.  He was currently a member of the “International Everest Expedition” Team.  Mr. Dawa Sherpa was 40 years old. Mr. Dawa Sherpa died when he fell into the Kharpas crevasse while ascending from ...
BREAKING NEWS! MT. EVEREST CLAIMS FIRST LIFE OF 2007. UPDATED 12:13 pm 04
2007-04-26 17:37:00
It is being reported today, April 26, 2007, that Mt. Everest has claimed it’s first life of 2007. Details are still sketchy at this moment as this story is just beginning to break, but it seems that a sherpa has been killed on Mt. Everest while making his way to camp 3 on the Everest’s famed South ...
Sir Edmund Hillary: Your Thoughts, Your Prayers
2007-04-25 01:15:00
It is being widely reported today that Sir Edmund Hillary has been injured in a fall.  Sir Hillary was the first person, along with his climbing sherpa Tenzing Norgay, to summit Mt. Everest.  It has been noted that Hillary is not suffering “Life-Threatening”- injuries and that his progress is going well. Hillary is 87 years old ...
Sir Edmund Hillary Hurt in Fall, Injuries not Life Threatening
2007-04-25 00:13:00
Sir Edmund Hillary, the man who gained fame by being the first person to scale Mt. Everest, has been injured in a fall.  The 87 year old Hillary had been in Nepal and had taken part recently in a special meeting with Apa and Lhakpa Ghelu Sherpa of the SuperSherpas Expedition. For more on this story, ...
First Post from SuperSherpas Expedition?
2007-04-12 04:08:00
The SuperSherpas Expedition that I have also been talking highly about has made their first post– The SuperSherpas Expedition is being done to raise awareness of the Sherpa people as well as the people of Nepal. The two climbers making this historical journey are Apa Sherpa and Lhakpa Gelu Sherpa.  Apa has summited Everest more than any ...
Everest Basecamp Trek to Support SuperSherpas Everest Expedition
2007-03-14 18:39:00
Last Frontier’s Trekking has announced a voyage to Everest basecamp in support of the upcoming 2007 SuperSherpas climbing Expedition. If you have always wanted to see Mt. Everest up-close, take in the sites, or just see what you are made of–then this would definately be a worthy expedition– $1000 of your trip fee goes directly to the ...
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