30 May SummitClimb Dispatch: Pheriche

Honouring Everest 1st Ascent. Last night, it rained in Lukla; our heli had to land in Pheriche. Our team, plus heli-co staff piled into a lodge for spirited celebration of YESTERDAY being anniversary of Sir Edmund Hillary and Sir Tenzing Norgay Sherpa making 1st ascent of Mighty Mt Everest on Royal Geographical Expedition led by Sir Lord John Hunt: 29 May, 1953. Imagine this scene: successful SummitClimb Everest team giddy to finally be away from BC + hard working Nepali heli crew grounded in Pheriche lodge on short notice with happy summiters. Obviously, prodigious amount of celebration was achieved to honour Tenzing and Hillary's 1st ascent of Earth's highest spot. Side note: helis did not arrive early in bc this morning! At 3am, 8 of our Sherpas departed BC to climb to C2 + C3: dig out tents, O2 cylinders, masks, regulators, epigas cans/burners, member eqp, rubbish. Sherpas returned BC 8pm. Wow.

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