Team Everest is now attempting "The Double", route fixing update

It's official, we have obtained a climbing permit for Lhotse! Four
Alpine Ascents climbers, two guides, and four climbing Sherpa are on
the permit for Lhotse in addition to Everest. These climbers will be
attempting Lhotse the day after attempting Everest. Our plan is to
summit Everest and return to Camp 4 at the South Col. Then the plan
for the Lhotse climbers is to rest for about ten hours and then begin
the descent down over the Geneva Spur toward the "Y" where the route
splits above the yellow band. The climb up from the "Y" should take
us about 5-7 hours and we hope to summit Lhotse sometime after
sunrise, then descend all the way down to Camp 2.

As our climbers rest in Namche & Debuche our film crew is happily
cutting video footage and enjoying the ample power available here in
our base camp. As you can see from the photo we have a large solar
array that provides the juice needed for not only our VHF radios,
laptops, satellite modem, phones, movie projector, etc., but also for
the camera and editing equipment for the film crew.

The fixing team of Sherpa includes sherpa from several teams. Kami
Rita and Fur Kancha Sherpa are representing the Alpine Ascents team on
the fixing crew. Their plan is to fix to the Balcony today and then
to the summit tomorrow weather pending.

Garrett Madison, Expedition Leader