Altitude: Winter 2017

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Au Revoir Everest: Strong Wind Thwarts Alex Txikon’s Summit-Bid

Thursday, March 09, 2017

Alex Txikon and the team vacate the stage for spring season, as strong wind and prediction of worsening weather thwarts the summit-bid. The...

Winter Everest: Second Summit Push Launched!

Tuesday, March 07, 2017

Alex Txikon and the team have launched another summit-bid on Everest. Although, weather window is quite at the edge of acceptable limit, th...

Winter Everest: First Summit-Push Debrief, Team Waiting for another Weather Window

Wednesday, February 15, 2017

First summit push of this winter on Everest started fairly well. Despite extreme cold at night and a few damaged sections of fixed route, t...

Winter Everest Summit-Bid: Strong Wind Forces Climbers to Turn Back from C4, Not Over yet!

Monday, February 13, 2017

Summit push on Everest continues, although strong wind near South Col (C4) forced the climbers to turn back to C3. “After reaching the C4, ...

Winter Everest Summit Push Launched: Txikon, Sherpa in C2

Friday, February 10, 2017

Alex Txikon and the team have launched the summit push. They intend to reach the summit early next week, as February 14th to 18th have been...

Winter 2017: South Col Bout, Everest Team Readies for Summit-Bid

Monday, February 06, 2017

Alex Txikon and fellow Sherpa climbers made it to C4 (7950m) in a quick single-day ascent from C2 last week. They deposited some gear for s...

Winter 2017 Update: Everest Team Reaches 7800m, Manaslu Attempt Thwarted

Friday, January 27, 2017

Manaslu team has left the Base Camp, as five meter deep snow made the summit-bid impossible. Elisabeth Revol is on the way back to Kathmand...

Winter Everest: Hurricane Winds Sweep the Slopes of Everest

Wednesday, January 11, 2017

Hurricane winds sweep the slopes of Everest, as winter climbers rest in Base Camp after first foray up the Icefall. Alex Txikon, Carlos Rub...

Winter 2017: Manaslu, Everest Teams in BCs with Different Strategies

Thursday, January 05, 2017

Elisabeth Revol reached Manaslu Base Camp last week, whereas Alex Txikon’s team made it to BC today. On two different mountains, the two te...

Winter 2017: Elisabeth Revol Heading to Manaslu, Alex Txikon in Nepal

Monday, December 26, 2016

Winter 2017 isn’t as secluded as it appeared until a couple of weeks ago. After Alex Txikon , a second winter climber announced her return ...

Winter Climbing Homecoming: Alex Txikon to attempt Everest without Bottled Oxygen

Monday, December 19, 2016

Winter climbing in high Asia was considered a mythical delusion before Poles summited the highest mountain on February 17, 1980. “If it wer...

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