Expedition Details

Bernard Voyer reached the summit of the highest mountain on Earth, Mount Everest with Dorjee Fulele Sherpa, on May 5, 1999. They arrived at 12:10 p.m. from Nepal, spent 40 minutes at the summit.

 

Anyone wishing to climb Everest must have a permit. In 1991, the cost of the permit was C$3,500. Today, it is C$10,000.

Everest base camp altitude: 5 400m. 4 other high-altitude camps are required:

  • Camp I, at 6 100m
  • Camp II, at 6 500m
  • Camp III, at 7 400m
  • Camp IV, at 8 000m

The amount of oxygen in the air drops drastically with altitude:

  • at 3 000m, 69%
  • at 6 000m, 47%
  • at 8 000m, 35%
  • at the summit, 30%

Climbing pace: climbing just 400 m/day above 3 000m:

  • at 3 000m, take one day‘s rest
  • at 4 000m, 2 days
  • at 5 000m, 3 days
  • at 6 000m, 4 days
  • above 7 500m, acclimatization is impossible.
 

Normal route via the Nepalese face

2_Everest_carte-de-l'ascension

 

 

  • Summit (8 850m) – Roof of the world, May 5, 1999
  • Camp IV (8 000m) – South Col
  • Camp III (7 400m) – On the Lhotse face
  • Camp II (6 500m) – In the Western Cwn
  • Camp I (6 100m) – Above the Icefall
  • Base camp (5 400m) – On the glacial moraine

 

 

 

 

 

Click on the image below to experience climbing the famous Southeast ridge route on Mt Everest:

Everest-Ascension
 

Calendar of climbs (1999)

Calendrier ascensions 1999
 

Calendar of climbs (1997)

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Everest seen from Mount Pumori

A – Everest (8 850m)vuepumori
B – South Col (7 980m)
C – Lothse (8 511m)
D – Nuptse (7 861m)
E – Col Nord (7 066m)
F – Changtse (7 583m)
G – Rongbuk western glacier
H – West Coomb
I  – Location of camp 2 (6 500m)
J – West Shoulder (7 309m)
K – Lho La (6 026m)
L – Hornbein Corridor
M – Norton Corridor
N – Khumbutse (6 685m)
O – Normal Lothse route
P – Pumori summit (7 135m)

 

1 – Normal route taken by Hillary and Tenzing Sherpa on May 29, 1953. Also the route taken by Bernard Voyer and Dorjee Sherpa on May 5, 1999.

2 – SW face (Bonington route): On September 24, 1975, Douglas Haston and Doug Scott, then Peter Boardman and Pertemba, probably followed by Mike Burke, disappeared not far from the summit.

3 – N Face (Japanese corridor): On May 10, 1980, Tsuneoh Shigehiro and Takashi Ozaki.

 

(Excerpt from : Vertical Magazine)