Nepal Might Close it's Mountain Access

Things are getting a little weird, but hopefully they will work out. Below is a true update from the guys on the ground over there. Keep the faith everyone, too much has been done to prepair. Thanks again for your support.


The Chinese originally asked the Nepal Government to completely shut down the south side of Everest until May 10. They are putting a lot of pressure on Nepal to make sure climbers from the south side do not disrupt the Torch climb. In response to this the Trekking Agents Association of Nepal (TAAN), the Nepal Mountaineering Association (NMA), and other organizations have had several meeting with the government ministers and are pushing a compromise proposal. This proposal would allow climbers to go to Base Camp as normal, start to work building camps, making the route, etc, but then will have the climbers pull down May 1-10 while the Torch climbers are making their summit bid.

From our standpoint, this compromise would be OK. We never make our summit bids this early in May, anyway, so we can work around this. We are not expecting to hear anything further until early next week.

We can not make an informed decision about the climb until we hear of the ministers' final determination. I realize you are all very anxious about this (me too!) but we'll just need to wait a few more days before we know for sure. I will let you know as soon as I hear anything.