Alan Arnette’s Everest 2017 coverage and annual coverage is based on my own Everest and K2 summits and climb experiences, research, sources, and public information. I try to provide insight and interpretation of the activities ranging from routes to weather to the challenge of climbing Everest. I am home in Colorado this season after a climbing accident in February that stopped me from a planned Dhaulagiri climb this spring.

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HEADLINE: Normal Season, Windy, 7 Deaths, 600++ Summits

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Last News: Monday, 31 May 2017 (Everest time: GMT+5:45)

Nepal Tourism says 455 summits: 190 foreigners, 32 fee-paying Nepalis, 233 Sherpas

Monsoon hits Kathmandu 10 June

season is over on both sides

Season headlines

Nobukazu Kuriki has ended his West Ridge, Hornbein attempt closing out the south side climbers

Cargo flight crashes at Lukla, pilots killed source

Kami Rita Sherpa summited for the 21st time tying him with Apa and Purba Tashi Sherpa for most summits

Kilian Jornet 2d summit in a week run again, ABC to summit and back in 29:30 on 27 May.

Nepal officials say Hillary Step is just fine (bad for business?) source

Traverse by Janusz Adamski A was illegal, operator sends letter to Government

4 dead at South Col inside tent – with new “guide” service – report was wrong

Kilian Jornet summited in record time but ended speed attempt due to illness stopping at ABC on north

Blind Austrian climber Andy Holzer summited on north with Furtenbach Adventures

My climbing buddy, Jim Davidson, with IMG, summited at sunrise 22 May. Very proud of him

Mollie Hughes – now part of “Both Sides Club”, youngest Brit to summit at age 26

EverestER has now seen over 500 patients

North side of Everest saw first 2017 summits by Transcend/Arun Trekking Sherpas fixing the rope on 10 May

Flu is hitting many climbers on Nepal side

7 Sherpas and 3 Gurkha achieve 1st summits on the Nepal side Monday 15 May

44-year-old Lhakpa Sherpa set record with 8th female summit on Tibet side 13 May

Neither side of Everest appears to be suffering from overcrowding this season

Himex Sherpa OK after long fall down Lhotse Face

Min Bahadur Sherchan, 86, died from unknown causes at Everest Base Camp

Ueli Steck dies on Nuptse acclimatising for Everest-Lhotse traverse

Winds, winds, winds and difficult weather on Nepal side – the emerging stories for 2017

Arun Treks Sherpa injured by falling ice

Gear flown into Western Cwm, eliminating hundreds of Sherpa carries

North: 136 foreigners/170 Sherpas

South: 28 countries represented, 455 summits: 190 foreigners, 32 fee-paying Nepalis, 233 Sherpas

70 Nepal side climbers used their 2015 extended permit

2017 Deaths: 6 Everest, 1 Nuptse deaths

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I did similar coverage for the 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016 seasons. I summited Everest on May 21, 2011 and have attempted Everest three other times – 2002, 2003, 2008 and Lhotse in 2015 and 2016.

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Reader Polls

What do you think of the banners on Ama Dablam? Amazing! Love the creativity since it is only temporary.

Inspiring! That was a lot of material to haul up there and attach to the peak.

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Shameful! Ama's summit or any summit is not the place for a stunt of this magnitude

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