KATHMANDU: At least three foreign climbers including the president of Mountain Hardwear Brand, a subsidiary of Columbia Sportswear Company, Joe Vernachio have decided to abandon their attempt to climb the world’s highest peak in the autumn season, according to sources at the Everest base camp.
The Mountain Hardwear Everest expedition members including Vernachio and Tim Emmett, one of the UK’s climbing elite, along with their filming crew today called off their bid to make a very rare ascent of Mt Everest in the autumn season after witnessing a lethal weather condition as well as a high risk of avalanche in the treacherous icefall section above the base camp, the base camp officials said.
However, ultra-runner Spaniard Kilian Jornet and Polish ski daredevil Andrzej Leszek Bargiel along with other team members have continued their acclimatization rotation as the rope-fixing team opened the icefall route to camp I from the base camp on Mt Everest, the sources added.
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