So moving up through the icefall . Now the icefall is equipped with ladders. So you have to go across that and-- still tricky and dangerous, but they had to bring a few logs up
It's something that this is moving approximately a meter a day, and it drops 400 meters in elevation over a distance of about 1,600 meters. So the icefall is one of the most active places there is. This is the location.
You can see here this is the terrain. They moved the icefall into a different-- the route through the icefall a slightly different way this year to minimize that risk, but it's kind of a catch 22. Places that avalanche in-- they fill in, so it makes travel easier, and you can go faster, but if you're going to where there's fewer avalanches,
One person made the summit that year from another team, a Russian guy. Our first time through that icefall took us 13 hours.
It wasn't until the 80s that they started bringing multiple trips and then sharing on there. So moving up through the icefall . Now the icefall is equipped with ladders.
Places that avalanche in-- they fill in, so it makes travel easier, and you can go faster, but if you're going to where there's fewer avalanches, you're in a more active icefall so you have greater risk of the ice towers and things like that toppling over. And this is the most dangerous part from an objective hazard standpoint of what's available.
and Nepal in between, and north of it, and they do a lot of the work. And moving the equipment up through the icefall is a tremendous amount of work. So they do repeated trips for people, and one often wonders why they're doing it, and it is pretty much a-- it's a market economy.
One person made the summit that year from another team, a Russian guy. And so we continue to climb from the icefall .
This is a project I did with the Extreme Ice Survey where we set up time lapse cameras, and so this is a two year time lapse. And you can see how the main Khumbu icefall is moving there. So this is the way that we can then use technology to give us data points and see how things go.
We talked about this in one way or another, so it was-- but one of the other-- the year prior to that there was an ice avalanche that came off this icefall here. And if you look in the upper right of center, there's sort of a horseshoe there, and that is a hanging glacier that comes off
knowing that people are still going to continue to go to the mountains, but to have the good training and allow people to have better skills. Nice image here by Corey Richards coming down through the icefall .
So I did go to Mount Everest. And when I was climbing in the Khumbu Icefall , every night, I'd write the paper. And then up in the great Western Cwm, we'd put stringing ladders, and making
One person made the summit that year from another team, a Russian guy. The climb truly begins in earnest here as you go up through the Khumbu Icefall , this river of ice flowing down from Nuptse, Lhotse,
when the jet stream diverts from the peak and you get this tiny little moment of lighter, I should say, winds. And there's about 50 or 60 of these ladder crossings throughout the khumbu icefall , depending on how it's all moving around.
about the actual planet that we live on. So we need to see a Google type camera that was looking over the icefall in real time, and so you could see what it looks like that day, or you could go into it, and you could see how has the icefall moved in the last six months and things
It's a lot of hard work. It's dangerous. You're climbing in the icefall . There's an example here of crossing the ladders.
So we need to see a Google type camera that was looking over the icefall in real time, and so you could see what it looks like that day, or you could go into it, and you could see how has the icefall moved in the last six months and things like that. So that was working on the Extreme Ice Survey project there, and then also with Montana State University we conducted a geologic profile of the limestone that
So I did both. So here is our team, and we climbed in beautiful places like the Khumbu Icefall , rigged ladders, but every night I would get to camp and I would write more of my paper.
when the jet stream diverts from the peak and you get this tiny little moment of lighter, I should say, winds. Some of you might know just a little bit about Everest, or read about it, but this is the famous khumbu icefall .