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Utahns on Everest sent word Tuesday that their bid to scale the world's tallest peak was unsuccessful. Despite its small size, Utahns on Everest made it as far up the mountain as larger, betterequipped teams. And they gave it their all.
Stan Smith,canada goose trillium parka, a Salt Lake podiatrist, said he and two teammates are in great health after spending nearly six weeks on the slopes of Everest. With Smith are Keith Hooker, an emergency room physician at Utah Valley Regional Medical Center, and Craig Bishop, a member of the Utah National Guard and a trilobite miner.
A fivemember team of Utah climbers left Utah Aug. 16 on an adventure they'd spent five years planning and preparing for. The team received a permit in 1987 to climb the Great Couloir on the north face of Everest, which stretches 29,028 feet above the Earth's surface.
It's not the easy route up the mountain. Only 11 people have reached the summit from the north side. In comparison, more than 175 people that tackled Everest from the south side succeeded.
Two team members returned home earlier. Howard "Doc" Chuntz, a Provo attorney, left Everest on Sept. 26 after helping the team gain some ground on the mountain. He arrived in Utah 11/2 weeks ago. Chuntz gave up the climb after losing 25 pounds and contracting dysentery.
Doug Hansen, owner of Hansen Mountaineering in Orem, returned to Utah Sept. 5 after he picked up a respiratory virus. Hansen began having difficulty breathing after reaching a camp at the 16,000foot level.
Despite its thin ranks, Utahns on Everest pressed on, Smith said.
The team worked its way up to 24,300 feet, where it stashed some equipment. The Utahns then returned to advanced base camp, 18,500 feet, and spent a week resting. On Sept. 27, Utahns on Everest, aided by two Sherpas who pack gear for teams, began climbing back up the mountain.
The team spent a day at Camp 2, at 20,300 elevation. Hooker stayed there, while Bishop, Smith and the Sherpas continued up the mountain. On Sept. 29, the team reached 24,000 feet.
But the effort took its toll on Bishop, who had been fighting a cough throughout the expedition. Overcome with fatigue, Bishop and a Sherpa descended to a lower camp. Smith and the remaining Sherpa continued on.
They reached Camp 4, elevation 25,000 feet, late on Sept. 29. There was no time to hack out a flat spot on Everest's icy slopes for a tent. So Smith and the Sherpa burrowed into a partially collapsed tent left on the mountain by an Italian team that had given up the climb days earlier.
This was as far as the 15member Italian team got on Everest. The Italians made six summit bids,moncler vest women, but each time high winds forced them back.
"We spent basically a sleepless night trying to melt snow for water,canada goose kids," Smith said. "We didn't get any sleep. The next morning as we left the tent we quickly realized we didn't have the strength to go to Camp 5."
That meant one thing: the summit bid was over.
Members of Utahns on Everest had arranged for yak drivers to meet them at the advanced base camp on a certain day to pack out their gear. There wasn't enough time to descend to a lower elevation, rest up, try for the summit and then make it back down the mountain.
Also, the weather turned foul. High winds kicked up, requiring the climbers to back down the mountain for their safety, Smith said.
And because of its size, Utahns on Everest hadn't spent time stringing fixed ropes to guide the team between camps along its climbing route. Sherpas aren't technically skilled climbers, and the two accompanying the team were unhappy about the lack of a guide rope,canada goose victoria parka, Smith said.
"The Sherpas on the expedition complained significantly about the fact that we didn't have fixed rope," Smith said. "The Sherpas aren't as comfortable on the mountain without a rope as foreigners are."
Smith said the Utahns cut a deal with the Sherpas: they'd use their help for one summit push and if that failed, they'd call the climb off.
"We felt we had an obligation not to push them further," Smith said.
The Utahns arrived in Katmandu on Monday. They're booked on a flight out of the city on Oct. 25, but are trying to hop on an earlier plane.
"We miss our families," Smith said.
Dreams die hard. Back home, Hansen is kindling the idea of trying it all again. "It's definitely in the making," he said. "It's just a matter of when."
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