Satish Lhotse 8516m expedition 2021 - Summit
Day nineteen 19 April, our team had a puja day and it was a great puja to start our expedition. On the same day I heard bad news regarding a Sherpa who got into an accident in the Khumbu glacier and had to be rescued by longline. SPPC then closed the Khumbu glacier for next 3 days. I decide to go and try Labuche peak once again.
Day twentieth 20 April - I left base camp for Labuche peak and trekked up to Labuche.
Day twenty one 21 April - I was supposed to head towards Labuche base camp but I was put on hold due to bad weather and heavy snow fall. That didn’t stop me from hiking all the way to 5300mtr and back. It started snowing again towards the afternoon. Stayed the night at Labuche.
Day twenty two 22 April – The bad weather continued till the morning but towards the after the weather started to improve. I took a good rest this day and had a wonderful time with the famous American Singer, Mike Posner and Nepali singer Raju Lama. We had a nice concert.
Day twenty third 23 April - Finally woke up to good weather, so l moved to Labuche high camp. It was a nice walk with lots of snow.
Day twenty fourth 24 April summit day - We started our summit push early at 2 AM. The route towards the peak seems to have changed with much more crevasses compared to my previous climb. I think Labuche is getting more and more difficult with changing landscape. Towards the summit I had to stop couple of times because of the traffic jam. I summited at 9am. The summit itself has changed a lot. You can now see a lot of crevasses due to the melted snow. After a successful summit, I returned all the way to Labuche.
Day twenty fifth 25 April - I had a fully day rest and did some laundry. Tomorrow I am planning to go Base camp. On arrivial at the camp, I will take few days rest, I will go for rotation to camp one, two and touch camp three.
My plan once I get to the base camp
Day twenty six 26 April Base camp
Day twenty seven 27 April rest day
Day twenty eight 28 April first rotation preparation day
Day twenty nine 29 April Camp1
Day thirty 30 April camp 2
Day thirty one 1 May camp 3 touch back to camp 2
Day thirty two 2 May back to the base camp
This will be my tentative itinerary. Thank you
