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Lhotse, Saturday, 24th of May 2008

RECOVERING IN THE BASE CAMP

Carlos and Javier slept in the base camp. They are very tired but they fell ok. Carlos suffers from frostbites in the fingers and in one toe, but they are not important. The one in his toe makes him unable to leave the base camp walking, as you have to cross the Khumbu Valley for few days. This, plus the risk of having suffered from brain edema symptoms, makes a helicopter necessary, so that they can go down quickly from this high base camp located at 5.400 meters. Tomorrow if weather is good, the helicopter will take them to Kathmandu.

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Lhotse is the fourth highest mountain in Earth with an altitude of 8516 meters.

It did not have a local name neither in tibetan nor in nepali. As this mountain is south of Everest, and links to it through its col, in 1921 Howard Bury named it south peak, which in Tibetan is Lhotse.

In 1956 a Swiss team arrived in Nepal with the intention to do the second climb to Everest, but they also had a permit for Lhotse. This expedition consisted of eleven Swiss mountaineers and the leader was Albert Eggler. The route to follow was clear: to go through the kumbu glacier up to the south col of Everest and do the attempt from there to the summit. The 18th of May 1956 they reached the sharp and small summit.

Nowadays Lhotse has five routes on its south face and just one on the west face.