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The climbing team hiked down from Gorak Shep to the village of Deboche for the night and will be moving to Namche Bazaar tomorrow Nepal time. They are doing fine. More details as we get them.
Transcript: This is Garrett Madison calling in from Gorak Shep. Today the team was able to descend from Camp 2 on Mount Everest down to Camp 1. We had a good break in the weather and then from Camp 1 we were able to be evacuated by helicopter down to Base Camp. We got down […]
The climbing team is down to base camp. Garrett provided an update via phone on the NBC Today Show: http://www.today.com/news/nepal-earthquake-everest-climber-describes-avalanches-awful-noise-t17586. More details as we have them.
We received a call from Garrett that the climbing team has quickly and safely descended from Camp 2 to Camp 1 and is now awaiting a helicopter evacuation to base camp. The weather is currently very good at base camp and there are a number of climbers from several teams awaiting a flight down. If […]
All of our surviving Everest 2015 personnel are doing well. Here is an update on their current locations: At Everest Camp 2: Alan Arnette Andrea Cordona Ankur Bahl Haley Ercanbrack Joe Ashkar Karl Nesseler Koei Kasamatsu Louis Carstens Masayuki Hatakeyama Rosier Alexandre Vibeke Andrea Sefland Billy Nugent Conan Bliss Fred Alldredge Garrett Madison At Gorak […]
Transcript of Garrett’s audio dispatch via sat phone: Hi, this is Garrett Madison calling in from Camp 2 on Mount Everest here with the guiding team. It’s been a rough 24 hours for us. Yesterday as many of you know there was an earthquake in Nepal and it shook up the Western Cwm pretty badly […]
Morning in Nepal. Garrett Madison and our climbing team reported in that all are well and safe at Camp 2. They are working with the other teams to assess this current situation and plan for options to decend to base camp. No ETA at this time but they are fine at Camp 2.
It is with deep sorrow and profound grief that we can confirm the loss of our Everest/Lhotse base camp doctor, Marisa Eve Girawong. Eve perished in the aftermath of the avalanche that struck the base camp area following the devastating Nepal earthquake earlier today. Our thoughts and prayers are with Eve and her family and […]
Unfortunately we don’t have new information to report at this time. It is night in Nepal and we expect to next hear from our team in local morning (~10 hours from now) barring communications issues. As we get more information, we will post it. We are deeply saddened by this terrible tragedy and our thoughts […]