Hi Everyone,
Yesterday we hiked from Lobuche village and arrived to our high camp at 18,500ft. The route was snowier than usual but madefor a nice climb to camp. The team did very well in variable conditions of snow, ice and rock. Today after a relaxed breakfast we left our high camp at 10:15am for the high point on Lobuche east at 19,600ft. This year the conditions were excellent on the climb and great practice climbing some rock, and a steep snow and ice slope with fixed lines to the high point. The route was in the best condition I’ve seen in the last several years. We’ve had great weather and a good acclimatization rotation here on Lobuche East and will head back to Basecamp tomorrow morning. We’ll probably be making some alternate acclimatization plans in the coming days as the Icefall route may be open now but will be very crowded which we will avoid if possible. I’ll send some pics tomorrow when we are back in Basecamp.
Thanks for following along,
Ben Jones
