Latest Everest update

I have just received word that the Ministry of Tourism in Nepal has agreed to let climbers stay on Everest up to Camp 2, including during the May 1-10 time period. This is the good news.

The down side is that the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Foreign Relations still have to give their final approvals.

So, it looks very good that one element of the Nepalese bureaucracy has agreed to a plan that has minimal disruption to climbers, but we still need to wait for the final say by other levels of government.

The expectation is still that climbing will proceed as planned on the South side, so we are still moving forward on that assumption.

Thanks for reading, soon the "real" climb will begin!

Brian Jones