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Sunrise on Mount Everest (in fall 2019)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

Fierce gusts of wind have caused a forced respite on Mount Everest and the other eight-thousanders in Nepal. This gives me the opportunity to summarise the events of the past three days. <\/p>\n

After the rope-fixing team from the Nepalese expedition operator 8K Expeditions \u2013 as reported<\/a> \u2013 achieved the first summit success of the spring on Mount Everest last Friday, around a dozen other mountaineers followed in their footsteps on Sunday \u2013 with bottled oxygen and Sherpa support \u2013 to reach the highest point on earth at 8,849 meters.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWorld\u2019s longest triathlon\u201d<\/h2>\n

Among them was Briton Mitchell Hutchcraft<\/a> \u2013 led by Gelje Sherpa<\/a> (his tenth Everes summit success) and Yak <\/a>P<\/a>huri<\/a> (his second time on the roof of the world). Mitch had set off 236 days earlier from his home country. He swam 35 kilometres across the English Channel, cycled almost 12,000 kilometres to India and ran \u2013 from sea level \u2013 900 kilometers to Kathmandu and trekked 365 kilometers from there to Everest Base Camp. \u201cThe world\u2019s longest triathlon,\u201d as the British newspaper The Guardian headlined<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The undertaking is reminiscent of the project by Swedish mountaineer G\u00f6ran Kropp<\/a> (1966-2002), who cycled to Everest from Stockholm in 1996, climbed the highest mountain on earth without Sherpa support and without bottled oxygen and then returned home by bike.<\/p>\n

Rope-fixing team on the north side of Everest also reaches the summit<\/h2>\n

On Sunday, the Chinese-Tibetan rope-fixing team<\/a> on the north side of Mount Everest also reached the summit. This means that the normal route is now also open there: via the Northeast Ridge.<\/p>\n

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Tibetan north side of Mount Everest (in 2005)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On Monday, an earthquake measuring 5.6 on the Richter scale<\/a> shook parts of Tibet \u2013 apparently without causing any major damage. Although the earth tremors were felt on Everest, they had no consequences.<\/p>\n

14th eight-thousander for mountaineer from Kosovo<\/h2>\n
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Kangchenjunga<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

A death has been reported from Kangchenjunga. A 63-year-old French woman died during her summit attempt last Saturday at an altitude of 7,800 meters, reported the newspaper Himalayan Times<\/a>. The woman was apparently suffering from high altitude sickness.<\/p>\n

The 65-year-old Briton Adrian Hayes<\/a>, who reached the summit with nine other people, also showed symptoms of altitude sickness on the descent and was brought to Camp 4 at around 7,500 meters by Sherpas. The rescue operation is to be continued as soon as the weather permits.<\/p>\n

Uta Ibrahimi<\/a> was also part of the successful summit group. She is the first Kosovan to have scaled all 14 eight-thousanders.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n