Our Lhotse climbers just checked in during a rest break above Lhotse Camp 4. The team is doing well and making good progress up the mountain. They are currently a little over an hour from the Lhotse Couloir. From the Couloir our team will have about another 4 hours of climbing before they reach the summit. I am keeping an eye on my watch and it looks like they are just on pace to make the summit within 24 hours of having stood on the summit of Mt. Everest. My notes show that the entire Everest team stayed on the summit until 8:20am before starting their descent, so that will be the rough time cut off for having climbed the two 8,000 meter peaks in a single day. No matter the time taken, having summited the largest and fourth largest mountains in the world on back to back nights is a pretty amazing accomplishment on its own.
The Lhotse Couloir
Joe Kluberton
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