May 22nd, 2010 will be a day recorded in replica Franck Muller watch history: the youngestperson to summit Everest and the person with the most summits inhistory on the same same day yet from different sides.Apa Sherpa at age 47 made his 20th summit with the Eco Everest teamand on the other side of the mountain, 13 year-old Jordan Romero alongwith his dad and Sherpa team made the top of the world, his 6th of the7 summits. What a day.Jordan showed his strength by going directly from camp 2 to thesummit. I am not sure of the exact time but believe it was around 9hours.
They report lite winds andmild temps as well. replica Breitling watches Altitude Junkies, Peak Freaks, IMG, Mountain Trip and the PatagoniaBrothers team are going up today, Saturday. Also Melissa Arnot,climbing without supplemental oxygen is there with her teammate DaveMorton.Chad Kellogg is on his speed attempt today (Saturday) aiming for around trip in around 30 hours from the South Base Camp. He will dependon Sherpas at several camps to melt snow for water. Obviously he willhave to maneuver around the other climbers.There are some teams who took a wait and see approach to the weather. Duncan Chessell put it well:Waiting Waiting? GOING UP FOR SUMMIT on 25th of May.The persistent high winds have held back many teams, including us.
We passed the other climbing teams, one by one, as replica IWC watches wewent up the face in the night and just as dawn was beginning to theEast we overtook a final team at 28,000 ft and felt fully in control ofour pace and destiny as we took on the South Summit. As daylight cameon, I knew it was one of the prettiest mornings I’d seen from up high.But I didn’t reach for my camera. The morning was pretty because therewere clouds at many levels and in many directions. I didn’t takepictures for the same reason I wouldn’t if I saw a large tiger comingmy way with fangs barred.It was clear that our good weather window was closing and we neededto move fast and hard if we wanted to squeeze in a summit. We felt thefull force of the winds as we crested the South Summit,
