List of Mount Everest guides
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Mount Everest guides are people who help people to climb Mount Everest in the Himalayas.
Guides can, for example, set fixed lines of rope for others to use, organize rescues in times of trouble, or use communication tools to call in helicopter evacuations.[1][2] Another job on Mount Everest is as an "icefall doctor" using ladders and ropes to make a path across the Khumbu Icefall, which guides might do themselves or delegate to others.[3] Guides, especially if they are guiding for a mountaineering or adventure company, often call the people they help up "clients".[4]
Another task on Everest is helping people with medical problems, although the work can be dangerous.[5] When potentially deadly health conditions strike, the guides can sometimes lose their clients or abort the climb.[6] One mother of two died after developing a health problem at the Everest base camp.[7]
Mount Everest guides assist climbers on what are called "guided" climbs, and guided ascent can cost double an unguided one.[8] Many climbers in more recent times are unguided but can get some support from a Sherpa, which, though more similar to an Alpinist porter, is much cheaper and also called a guide.[8] The term guide can mean something along the lines of an assistant all the way to a World-famous mountaineer.[8]
Guides
- Adrian Ballinger[9]
- Andy Harris[10]
- Andy Tyson[11]
- Anatoli Boukreev[12]
- Andrew Lock[18]
- Arnold Coster
- Bill Allen
- Dan Nash[13]
- Daniel Mazur[14]
- Dave Hahn[15]
- David Breashears[16]
- David Hamilton[17]
- David Morton[18][19]
- Jacob Schmitz
- Dean Staples[4]
- Eric Simonson[20]
- Garrett Madison[2]
- Gheorghe Dijmărescu
- Kenton Cool[21]
- Lydia Bradey[4]
- Mike Hamill
- Mark Whetu[6]
- Mark Woodward[4]
- Michael Horst[22]
- Michael Groom[10]
- Mike Roberts[4]
- Neal Beidleman[23]
- Phil Crampton[24]
- Phil Ershler[25]
- Rob Hall[1][10]
- Russell Brice[26]
- Scott Fischer[10]
- Sean James[27]
- Todd Burleson[28]
- Tim Mosedale[29]
- Vernon Tejas
- Wally Berg[30]
- Ryan Waters
- Willie Benegas
- Zac Poulton[31]
- Alexander Abramov[32]
- Steve Bell[33]
- Scott Woolums
Nepali guides
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Some examples:
- Ang Rita (Angrita Sherpa)
- Ang Dorje Sherpa
- Ang Tharkay
- Apa Sherpa
- Babu Chiri Sherpa
- Kami Rita Sherpa (with Alpine Ascents)
- Lakpa Gelu
- Lopsang Jangbu Sherpa
- Mingma Tenjing Sherpa (with International Mountain Guides)
- Nawang Gombu
- Pem Dorjee Sherpa
- Pertemba (Pertemba Sherpa)
- Phurba Tashi
- Sungdare Sherpa
- Tendi Sherpa (with Climbing the Seven Summits)
- Temba Tsheri
- Tashi Tenzing
- Tenzing Norgay
Guide firms and organizations
- Alpenglow Expeditions[34]
- Started by Adrian Ballinger after 2012[35]
- Alpine Ascents International.[36]
- Altitude Junkies[37]
- Arnold Coster Expeditions[38] (see also Arnold Coster)
- Adventure Consultants
- Asian Trekking
- Climbing the Seven Summits
- Himex (Himalayan Experience)
- International Mountain Guides
- Jagged Globe[41]
- Mountain Madness
- Mountain Trip
- Mountain Trip lead guides include Scott Woolums (7 Everest summits), Bill Allen (3 Everest summits) and Jacob Schmitz (3 Everest summits)
- Peak Freaks[42]
- Peak Freaks was started in 1983[43] Marty Schmidt was a Peak Freak guide in 2013, though he died later that year with his son on K2 due to an avalanche.[44][45]
- Mountain Professionals
- Satori Adventures and Expeditions
- 7 Summits Club[46]
Examples of Guide firms in 2017[47]
- Adventure Consultants, Adventure Peaks, Adventure Global, Altitude Junkies, Alpenglow, Alpine Ascents International (AAI), Arnold Coster, Furtenbach Adventures, Himalayan Experience (Himex), International Mountain Guides (IMG), Jagged Globe, Kobler & Partner, Madison Mountaineering, Mountain Trip, Mountain Professionals, Benegas Brothers, RMI, Tim Mosedale, 7 Summits Club, Summit Climb
- Nepali firms: Ascent Himalaya, Asian Trekking, Arun Treks (India Transcend Adventures), Dreamers Destination, Seven Summits Treks, Satori, TAGnepal, Expedition Himalaya, Himalayan Ascent
See also
- List of summiters of Mount Everest
- List of people who died climbing Mount Everest
- 1996 Mount Everest disaster
- Nepal Mountaineering Association
References
- ^ a b "Fixed ropes - climbers guide to Everest". mounteverest.net. Retrieved 23 March 2015.
- ^ a b USA Today - Mount Everest avalanche survivor: 'I had to survive' - April 27, 2015
- ^ Elite Sherpa Dies in Fall on Everest
- ^ a b c d e Record-breaking glory on Mt Everest
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- ^ a b c The Cost$ of Climbing Everest, 2010
- ^ The Guide Putting Everest Expeditions on a Fast Track
- ^ a b c d PBS - Storm Over Everest
- ^ Andy Tyson Stephen Henderson Apr 16, 2015
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- ^ The Guide Putting Everest Expeditions on a Fast Track
- ^ NBC - Inside Dateline
- ^ National Geographic
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- ^ "Everest: is it right to go back to the top?". The Guardian. 2015-04-12. Retrieved 2018-01-12.
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- ^ "Everest and Lhotse in Less Than 21 Hours". Climbing.com. Archived from the original on 20 September 2011. Retrieved 16 October 2011.
- ^ PBS - Everest Facts
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- ^ Conquering life's lows has been the true test of climbing couple's mettle 2007
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- ^ "Everest North, Lhakpa Ri and North Col expeditions 2017 - Adventure Peaks". Adventure Peaks. 2017-05-24. Retrieved 2017-06-05.
- ^ PBS - Everest Facts
- ^ The Guide Putting Everest Expeditions on a Fast Track
- ^ Everest: Wally Berg
- ^ "Everest Expedition News 2011 - Adventure Peaks". Adventure Peaks. 2011-05-12. Retrieved 2017-09-29.
- ^ "Alex Abramov / Our team / About Us / Аll projects of 7 Summits Club". 7summitsclub.com. Retrieved 2017-12-12.
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- ^ Ang Tshering Sherpa
- ^ ON TOP OF WORLD: My Everest Adventure By Arjun Vajpai
- ^ "Everest: is it right to go back to the top?". The Guardian. 2015-04-12. Retrieved 2018-01-12.
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- ^ "Аll projects of 7 Summits Club". www.7summitsclub.com. Retrieved 2017-12-12.
- ^ [http://www.alanarnette.com/blog/2017/12/08/how-much-does-it-cost-to-climb-mount-everest-2018-edition/
