I have spent the last last two days visiting the other team’s here at basecamp. I have made an audit of the number of each team’s climbing members. I also climbed the moraine wall to take a panorama photograph and marked the positions of each basecamp on the image below.

The information I have gained below is from asking members from each expedition. Where possible I tried to speak to the leader, when not available I spoke to whoever was available. The information below is as accurate as possible given the circumstances.

For the audit of climbers, I count climbers and their guides together in one count, and Sherpa/Tibetan’s going for summit in a separate count for each team. I have not counted cooks or other support staff for teams.

I apologise in advance if I have got any numbers wrong. If I have and you have more upto date information please email me (rawly@singnet.com.sg) or post a comment on this post and I will update it as we progress to get things more accurate. At the end of the season I hope to get the number of successful summiter’s and can thus calculate an exact percentage success rate.

As time goes on team members will drop out due to injury and sickness, however I am not sure I can accurately track that.

I will update this post as I get more information.

TOTAL CLIMBERS KNOWN AS AT: June 15th, 2012

Total number of clients attempting summit: 118

Total number of Sherpa/Tibetan attempting summit:  114

Key (see number in red on the photograph)

1. Entrance to basecamp.

Site of Chinese Army security point. No one without valid climbing or trekking permits is allowed past here.

2. Site of Mallory and Irvine Memorial (see photo below). Also the basecamp of an expedition called ‘Rolwaling Excursion’ .

The team did not look to have arrived when I visited however the Tibetan crew told me there was 7 climbers for the summit??

NUMBER OF CLIMBERS FOR SUMMIT = 4

NUMBER SHERPA FOR SUMMIT = 4

3. Location of stone toilet.

This is built on a large mound which is also the best spot to pick up the reception signal for those people using CHINA MOBILE service. CHINA MOBILE can be picked up all over basecamp but reception is fickle and drifts in and out. From the top of this mound I found the most reliable spot.

4. Mountain Monarch basecamp A 6 person Albanian team (including a father and son) with supporting Sherpa’s

NUMBER OF CLIMBERS FOR SUMMIT = 6

NUMBER SHERPA FOR SUMMIT = 6

5. Arun Trekking basecamp run by very friendly Lhakpa Rangdu Sherpa. They have two clients, a Russian and a French gentlemen.

NUMBER OF CLIMBERS FOR SUMMIT = 2

NUMBER SHERPA FOR SUMMIT = 4

6. Altitide Junkies basecamp. 7 climbers, 9 climbing Sherpa’s.

NUMBER OF CLIMBERS FOR SUMMIT = 7

NUMBER SHERPA FOR SUMMIT = 9

7. CTMA Chinese Tibetan Mountaineering Association rope fixing camp

NUMBER ROPE FIXERS FOR SUMMIT = 12

There is a Chinese team of climbers which I found it very difficult to get an accurate answer of the number of climbers as everytime I asked I got told a different number.

So I am making a best estimate here based on my research.

NUMBER OF CLIMBERS FOR SUMMIT = 5

NUMBER SHERPA FOR SUMMIT = 10

8. There are 3 expedition basecamps grouped closely around this rocky mound:

Adventure peaks working with Himalayan guides

4 x Swedish climbers and 4 x British climbers plus one Canadian guide.

NUMBER OF CLIMBERS FOR SUMMIT = 9

NUMBER SHERPA FOR SUMMIT = 4

Summit Climb

NUMBER OF CLIMBERS FOR SUMMIT = 5

NUMBER SHERPA FOR SUMMIT = 4

Chinese Team from China Geographic University in Wuhan

NUMBER OF CLIMBERS FOR SUMMIT = 4

NUMBER TIBETAN/SHERPA FOR SUMMIT = 5

9. Project Himalaya basecamp

NUMBER OF CLIMBERS FOR SUMMIT = 2

NUMBER SHERPA FOR SUMMIT = 2

Andrew Lock is sharing basecamp with Project Himalaya but climbing solo without oxygen

NUMBER OF CLIMBERS FOR SUMMIT = 1

NUMBER SHERPA FOR SUMMIT = 0

10. 7-Summits Club and 7-Summits Adventure basecamp.

NUMBER OF CLIMBERS FOR SUMMIT = 25

NUMBER SHERPA FOR SUMMIT = approximately 18 (to be confirmed)

11.Indian Mountaineering and Skiing expedition basecamp

NUMBER OF CLIMBERS FOR SUMMIT = 15

NUMBER SHERPA FOR SUMMIT = 6

12. Kobler & Partner basecamp

NUMBER OF CLIMBERS FOR SUMMIT = 9

NUMBER SHERPA FOR SUMMIT = 11

13. Asian Trekking

NUMBER OF CLIMBERS FOR SUMMIT = 10

NUMBER SHERPA FOR SUMMIT = 7

14. Chinese expedition 2 Chinese climbers sponsored by a company with 15 Tibetan guides

NUMBER OF CLIMBERS FOR SUMMIT = 2

NUMBER TIBETAN SHERPA FOR SUMMIT = 4

15. Snout of the mighty Rongbuk Glacier

16. Turning point up the East Rongbuk glacier which teams take on the way to Advanced basecamp

17. Summit of Mt Everest

18. Monterossa expedition basecamp Spain/German/Italian/Poland and Ecuador climbers

NUMBER OF CLIMBERS FOR SUMMIT = 8

NUMBER TIBETAN SHERPA FOR SUMMIT = 4

19. Cho Oyu Trekking – Polish team – no permanent basecamp. Arrived later in season, for apparently 20+ days only on the mountain.  One climber reported sick with AMS and returned to Kathmandu early on.

NUMBER OF CLIMBERS FOR SUMMIT = 4

NUMBER TIBETAN SHERPA FOR SUMMIT = 3

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