10 May SummitClimb Dispatch: Tenji Sherpa

My Name Is Tenji Sherpa. I am leader of SummitClimb Sherpa team. I am 38 years old with 2 kids, 1 girl, 1 boy. When I started working, I was a kitchen boy, now I've summited Everest 15 times. Today our group of 7 Sherpas each carried 6 oxygen bottles, 1 tent, and 5 epigas cans up to camp 4 on the south col. Our rucksacks were 35 kilos each. It's a very hard climb up the steep icy cold Lhotse face. We left c2 at 9pm and we used oxygen. Another team was climbing the face at the same time as us. They are about 100 foreign members and 100 Sherpas, all trudging up in a long line. There is no way our 7 Sherpas could pass 200 while climbing this blue ice face so we had to wait for 2 extra hours. At 8am we deposited our loads at c4 on the cold windy south col with the other 80 or so tents. On our way down we waited for 80+ people (same group) adding 2 hours to our descent, reaching c2 at 4pm.

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