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WHEN DID THE SUMMIT BECOME MORE IMPORTANT THAN LIFE?

What happened on Himlung Himal is a tragedy that cannot simply be blamed on “the mountain.”

15 Nepali mountain workers are dead, and one remains missing.

I started climbing in 2004. I have watched the Himalayas become increasingly commercial more companies, more competition, more clients, and unfortunately, more pressure to succeed.

We saw the consequences of extreme commercial pressure before, including the 1996 Everest disaster, when eight people lost their lives.

After I raised concerns about Himlung, I was accused by Imagine Nepal of speaking for “business” and “marketing.”

What business?

I don’t commercially guide 8,000-metre mountains. I climb for causes much bigger than myself.

This is about the Sherpas, guides, cooks and mountain workers whose families expect them to come home.

Questions must be asked. Decisions must be examined. And accountability matters.

No summit, no client and no business is worth a human life.

The mountains will always be there. People may not be.

May they all rest in peace. #HimlungHimal #MountainSafety #Mountaineering #Himalayas #respectthemountain

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FORTY-SEVEN DAYS WITHOUT A SHOWER 🚿 🧼 🏔️
That is just one of the less glamorous realities of the historic 2021 K2 Winter Expedition.

With the release of “The Last First: Winter K2” on @appletv today, I am looking back at my time on the world’s second-highest mountain. I went to Pakistan to support my dear friend @colinobrady. I expected the cold, but -30°F nights at 16,000’ in basecamp is a chill that sinks directly into your bones. Despite the brutal conditions, I am incredibly proud to have completed two rotations and pushed up to Camp 2 for acclimatization in late January.

But mountains require intuition just as much as endurance. Moving above the start of the ropes toward Camps 1 and 2 during the mass summit push, my gut told me something was wrong. The weather forecast pushed far past my acceptable level of risk, and the bottleneck of climbers heading up felt like a recipe for disaster. I have always prided myself on being the voice of reason in the mountains, so I made the hard call to turn back to basecamp and support Colin and sherpa Ming Temba over the radio.

What transpired next was heartbreaking. Four men tragically lost their lives. Three were frozen to the rope and never came back. Up at 23,000’ at Camp 3, Colin survived a brutal night trapped in a single tent with 8-10 other climbers due to the poor planning of teams who failed to bring their own shelters.

@amirhbarlev has put together a genuinely wonderful film about this expedition. I am deeply grateful to have contributed a fair amount of the footage used in the documentary, along with off-camera insights from my interviews with the directors. While my on-camera presence ultimately ended up on the cutting room floor, and I overall was erased from the film- this post is my way of honoring my own journey.

I was there. I lived through the tragedies that unfolded, I put my life on the line, and I walked away because I listened when the mountain said no.

Go watch the film. It is a powerful piece of storytelling, and I have nothing but gratitude for the experience. I hope to work with Amir in the future to tell even more stories from the high peaks.

#K2Winter #K2 #TheLastFirst #pakistan

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Day two at Himlung Base Camp.

Rescuers have recovered two more bodies, bringing the confirmed death toll to four. Twelve workers are still missing after Sunday’s avalanche buried the base camp under around 14 feet of snow.

The workers were preparing the camp and fixing ropes ahead of the autumn climbing season. No foreign climbers were involved.

The rescue team, led by Mingma G. Sherpa and NNMGA guides, reached the camp hoping to find survivors. The search is now focused on recovery as conditions remain difficult.

Our thoughts are with the families and colleagues of those still missing and those who have lost their lives.

Read more at: sherpalegend.com

Photos: @nnmga

#himlung #nepal #mountaineering #avalanche #sherpalegend

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Deadly Himlung Avalanche: Rescue teams have reached the avalanche site at Himlung Himal, where two guides have been confirmed dead and 14 others remain missing. The rescue is being led by Mingma G, who is once again at the center of a high-risk mountain rescue just seven weeks after leading the difficult search and recovery effort following the deadly Broad Peak avalanche.

It has been a heartbreaking year for Mingma G, and for Nepal’s mountain community, marked by repeated loss, dangerous rescues and families still waiting for answers.

Read the full story at sherpalegend.com

#himlunghimal #mingmag #nepal #mountaineering #sherpalegend

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For those who are interested in why we’re bailing on Manaslu.

I’ll share more videos in the coming days. We got to ski/ride from 6500 meters twice without supplemental oxygen or Sherpa support.

Though we didn’t summit, Manaslu is a pretty amazing mountain to climb and ski. We’ll be back. @skylinemountainguides @ryanmitchellyt

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#mountaineering #mountains #nepal #trek #manaslu

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Manaslu now has to wait.

The weather is not allowing teams to move higher, and some expeditions have decided to turn back. In the mountains, sometimes getting everyone home safely matters more than reaching the summit.

Read more at: sherpalegend.com

#manaslu #manaslu2026 #sherpalegend #himalayas

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Bid now, until midnight 21st Sept, for @kentoncool ‘s Everest. A painting by landscape artist @ruthbondart #everest #adventure #explorers #climbing #nepal

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Manaslu’s busiest season ever challenged by terrible weather and an impending cyclone. Hoping for a safe but abridged season and we check in on Nepals flood recovery efforts almost one month on.

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The Manaslu rope-fixing team went back up after an avalanche buried the ropes they had already fixed, rebuilding the route toward the summit.

Now, hundreds of climbers will follow the same ropes on their summit push many of them never knowing the nine men who fixed them, lost them, and fixed them again.

But with snow now falling on Manaslu, the mountain may force another pause. The route is open, but the summit push will depend on what the mountain and weather allow.

Remember the team behind the ropes.

Photos: @gyalzean_sherpa

Read more at sherpalegend.com.

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