![]() The ice serac fall in the Icefall last week created a short delay, with no injuries, but traffic is back to normal now. Overall, the season is going well, but it is very early. Peter Hackett, the leading expert on high altitude physiology. One team will run their clients at 8 liters per minute next year!! The long standard has been to climb at 2 lpm and the more expensive outfits climb at 4 lpm.Īfter this season, I’ll do another deep dive in this updating my article I published in 2014 where I interviewed the CEO of the leading US company and Dr. Of note is that those companies that heavily promote the use of altitude tents also give their clients an enormous amount of supplemental oxygen. Those who use the technique are believers, others are skeptics and some dismiss it as a dangerous marketing tool. It has caught on and has become the standard part of a couple of team’s required process. I will continue to note the use of altitude tents for pre-acclimatization. Alex has one of the largest and most experienced team on the north year in, year out. Case in point, Alexander Abramov’s 7 Summits Club, just arrived in Lhasa, 15 April. This has been most prevalent on the north side. Others have experienced a delay in fixing the ropes in recent years, so it was wasted time to arrive at base camp only to sit for three weeks. Some of these climbers are using altitude tents to “pre-acclimatize” thus feel they can fly or drive almost directly to base camp skipping the acclimatization process others use to safely arrive at 17,000 feet. I am noticing more and more people arriving in Lhasa or Kathmandu in mid April instead of late March. This is looking to be more true everyday. In 2016, 641 climbers made the summit from both sides. ![]() I am expecting over 600 summits from the South (Nepal) side and well over 200 from the North (Tibet) totaling 800 from both sides, smashing the record set in 2013 with 658 total summits from both sides. This puts the traffic on the Khumbu Icefall and Lhotse Face close to 1,000 climbers and there are more permits to be issued. As I have been reporting there are at least one Sherpa for each foreigner so there will be at least 730 climbers on Everest plus another ~200 on Lhotse, which shares 90% of the same route with Everest. Remember that these are permits for foreigners and does not include Sherpas. Dhaulagiri also has a large number of climbers at 51 and Makalu has 43. Note that Everest and Lhotse are both up from last year. My sincere thanks to Rajan Pokhrel for this chart. The Nepal Ministry of Tourism is reporting that 365 foreigners from 39 teams have already received permits for Everest and healthy activity on many other peaks. This past week the Nepal side saw a huge influx of teams and on the Tibet side, the beginning of what could be a record year began. See also: Air Lease Corporation delivers two Airbus A350-1000s to Air Caraïbes Atlantique and FrenchBeeĬover photo credit: Paris Aéroport Press.As we enter mid April, the activity is increasing on both sides of Everest. Papeete, Tahiti (PPT) via San Francisco (SFO) three times a week.San Francisco (SFO) three times a week.The airline will operate four destinations in the United States and two routes in overseas territories, and its fleet will consist of four Airbus A350-900s and two Airbus A350-1000s. The company will compete against other legacy carriers in this segment such as Air France and American Airlines which offer their services from Paris – Charles de Gaulle (CDG). Advertisement - New destination in Floridaįor the boreal winter 2022/2022, the French low-cost airline will debut a new destination in the state of Florida, starting December 15 it will begin flying non-stop between Paris (ORY) and Miami (MIA) with three weekly flights on 480-passenger Airbus A350-1000s in two classes.įor the time being, French Bee will be the only low-cost carrier to connect to South Florida from Orly International Airport (ORY).
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