Mount Everest 2025

Nine people died trying to summit Everest in 2024.

Alan Arnette's 2025 blog. Ropes have been fixed up to Camp Two.

Green boots!

More new rules:

All climbers are also mandated to carry advanced satellite tracking devices during their ascent, so teams on the ground can track their movements in real time

The new bill also mandates that all guides, including Sherpas, must be Nepali.

Dead body management insurance will also be required by climbers… Climbers and Sherpas are also required to carry policies for accidents, health, and search and rescue; all policies mandated must cover at least three months' insurance per individual.

A $4,000 refundable garbage deposit with a non-refundable garbage fee will be collected at the time of permit issuance. In order to get that deposit back, climbers are required to bring their ‘human waste bags’ back to Base Camp after their climb, in addition to bringing back a minimum of 18 pounds of waste to reclaim their deposit.

the new laws prohibit expensive and luxury glamping equipment, such as see-through dome tents with all the luxuries of home, to full-service dining and entertainment areas for the 2025 climbing season and future seasons

Heli-jumping” is also prohibited as of this season

Costs for permit fees to climb Mount Everest in 2025 are set to increase by 36% on September 1, 2025, from $11,000 per person to $15,000.

^ oops, some overlap with OP. IIRC, the tracking devices issued last year were very low quality. Also new rules are issued every year but enforcement is spotty. The glamping one is already ignored if you read AA’s blog.

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The climbing season threads have been the most unexpected of surprises on DL. Hilarious, informative, and of course at times DL catty and bitchy.

[QUOTE] The new bill also mandates that all guides, including Sherpas, must be Nepali.

This is a terrible idea. A lot of them don't know what the hell they're doing.

'A $4,000 refundable garbage deposit with a non-refundable garbage fee will be collected at the time of permit issuance.'

Most of the rich westerners will be fine losing this deposit if it means they don't have to lug their shit about.

So no western guides allowed? Can expedition leaders still be western or will that be axed next?

if there is money to be made, it belongs to the Nepalese.

I wait all year for this thread . My post Easter surprise

Good. I’m glad they are cracking down on these more money than sense idiots who endanger others with their dumb shit.

Chomolungma deserves respect.

Go get em, gal!

Having all these RULES about who can and CANNOT climb is goddamn UNAMERICAN!

More Nepalese expedition leaders means more corrupt fuckers like Nimsdai.

"I will make Nepal our 53rd state if these horrible rules aren't rescinded!"

There probably won’t be any summits until mid-May.

I did learn that people do climb at other times. Very, very few but it is possible. Autumn has more than summer or winter. I wonder what it’s like, who are they? Also all the guide ropes and ice ladders are removed after the spring season so how are they climbing?

Mount Washington in Winter is rugged enough.

BTW, if you want to see a supurb recreation of what it's like to climb Mt Washington in Winter, check out the movie Infinite Storm with Naomi Watts. I was extremely impressed, quite realistic even though it was shot in another country.

I have a friend up there now. The whole thing takes 60 days! They make them acclimate, and do practice runs on ice ladders. He’s submitted 12 high mountains, and this will be the sixth of the seven summits for him. He was supposed to go a couple years ago but ended up needing knee surgery, but he’s worked hard to get back in climbing shape. It seems terrifying to me, but he is clearly having a blast.

Summitted. Not submitted.

This experience is right up there with the Nautilus and Ladies’ Rocket Ship.

Keep us updated with how your friend does, R21. Is he wealthy?

R21's friend is the Bottom on Top of the World. I await the "Let's Be" thread about him.

[QUOTE] Bottom on Top of the World.

Love it! Updates please, R25.

I've wasted big $ and put myself in harm's way for stupid reasons, which is why I hate seeing others do it. But I also realize you can't stop someone who has something to prove and the wherewithal to do it.

When I was in Nepal I saw a video of the conquest of Everest. One dude, I think he was Australian and had a new baby, got trapped in a storm and got severe frost bite. All his fingers had to amputated, he lost a good part of his nose, and both feet. But he lived.

No, thanks.

“I've … put myself in harm's way for stupid reasons…. But I also realize you can't stop someone who has something to prove and the wherewithal to do it.”

And so begins the story of how I lay there, face down-ass up, in a bathhouse in the 90s.

He’s comfortable, as they say r24.. No kids, no current relationship, so he’s able to train hard and take all the time it requires to be ready. He’s started the climb and will be out of contact for a week. It’s 20-30 degrees in the tents at basecamp, they sleep in all of their clothes.

This sounds like a recipe for disaster:

According to a report in the Financial Times, four British mountaineers are to inhale the inert gas xenon under medical supervision after arriving in Kathmandu. They are then to be flown by helicopter to Everest Base Camp and set off straight for the summit with their Sherpas. After a three-day ascent to the summit at 8,849 meters and a one-day descent, they will return to Kathmandu by helicopter and then return home.

After a week, the Brits could be back at their desks at home. They still pay an introductory price of an undisclosed amount. In future, such a short trip to Everest will cost around 150,000 euros.

Can I still bring my cappuccino machine up?

What it’s like to cross the ice ladders. Hey you can practice at home!

Isn’t Mallory’s body still up there?

Yes, R34. The team that found him covered him with rocks. The camera never has been found.

Thanks for starting this OP!

Return to Corpse Poo Mountain

A 64 year old man died last week trying to summit the 'easy' mountain Ama Dablam.

On Everest, heavy snow has stopped progress.

The April 30 link above is worth reading.

Arnette calls out various climbers who are going for records—speed climbing without oxygen, a new route that avoids the icefall, a sherpa who wants to summit four times in 20 days, a BASE jumper going for the altitude record, and a guy who has cycled from Calais to India after swimming the Channel. The Xenon guys will be interesting too.

[QUOTE] a sherpa who wants to summit four times in 20 days

Insanity.

"YAAAAAAASSSSSS!!!!!"

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Awards Season is coming

The OP sounds mentally deranged.

Just give me a cute Sherpa, a cozy tent at Base Camp and I’ll be fine.

The movie Everest (2015) is pretty good.

What's the point of the xenon gas?

Breathing Xenon -may- be a performance enhancer. Four former military guys have been breathing it at home and hope to arrive and summit in the space of a week. We’ll see.

Xenon gas used to be used as an anaesthetic ...

I can see this going deliciously wrong.

What is the estimated summit day?

Not OP, but fuck off, r43. I look forward to this post every year. Bring on the photos of the climbers lined up like sardines, awaiting their few minutes to take a photo on top.

The last two weeks in May will be peak climbing (heh) judging by past history, so May 15?

Mt. Everest, the mountain with the biggest tits in the world.

^^^^ we resemble that remark!

Mount Everest was created because Eurasia was an insatiable bottom.

And India is a power top!

A 39-year-old man from Chicago has died on Makalu.

High winds have slowed progress on Everest. Ropes have only been fixed up to 7000m. No summits yet.

See link and scroll down for a very interesting account of climbing from Camp 1 to Camp 3.