Dan Mazur-Philip Ling Everest-Lhotse
Hi, this is Dan calling with a dispatch from the SummitClimb Everest-Lhotse Expedition. Today is April 26 and the time is 11:30am local time.
Today our team of seven members and six Sherpas attempted to go up to Camp 3. We turned around at the bergschrund at the base of the Lhotse Face because of an accident, a fatality, with a Sherpa from another group. All members of our team are fine. I am going to pass the phone to Philip Ling, so he can give a better description of what he saw.
This is Philip Ling from the SummitClimb Everest-Lhotse Expedition. We left Camp 2 at about 7:30am this morning. As we approached the bergschrund where the Lhotse Face meets the Western Col it appeared a Sherpa had an accident.
He was climbing the fixed lines and a block of ice apparently fell from the
bergschrund and hit him in the head injuring him fatally. As we approached the scene the body was being buried by another team. We helped with the burial and we helped clean up at the base of the ropes. It was quite a nasty mess. Out of respect for the Sherpa who died, and also following the respects of our own Sherpas we decided to turn around, head back to Camp 2 and we'll think about what happened and make some more decisions tonight and tomorrow.
Thank you very much.
http://www.everestnews.com/summitclimb/everestsouth04262007.htm
Today our team of seven members and six Sherpas attempted to go up to Camp 3. We turned around at the bergschrund at the base of the Lhotse Face because of an accident, a fatality, with a Sherpa from another group. All members of our team are fine. I am going to pass the phone to Philip Ling, so he can give a better description of what he saw.
This is Philip Ling from the SummitClimb Everest-Lhotse Expedition. We left Camp 2 at about 7:30am this morning. As we approached the bergschrund where the Lhotse Face meets the Western Col it appeared a Sherpa had an accident.
He was climbing the fixed lines and a block of ice apparently fell from the
bergschrund and hit him in the head injuring him fatally. As we approached the scene the body was being buried by another team. We helped with the burial and we helped clean up at the base of the ropes. It was quite a nasty mess. Out of respect for the Sherpa who died, and also following the respects of our own Sherpas we decided to turn around, head back to Camp 2 and we'll think about what happened and make some more decisions tonight and tomorrow.
Thank you very much.
http://www.everestnews.com/summitclimb/everestsouth04262007.htm
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