Two dispatches are set to launch today, April 30. Looks like Russell's Sherpas and a Kazakh team have reached the summit.
From one impending dispatch, "About 1 PM word got around camp that Phurba Tashi Sherpa and four of his top men had reached the summit. At 1.15 PM (times are approximate), in between shifting clouds, we saw two Kazakh climbers, Maxut and Vassily, who we’d heard were trying to blitz Everest “alpine style,” climbing oxygenless and without fixing their own camps. They were inching their way up the slope above the third step, moving very slowly. "
good going phurba and his team thanks for the update greg wonder how long it took them to do it bet thaty ran up there knowing the sherpas
Posted by: matt hardy | April 30, 2007 at 06:39 PM