Flashing on Everest: is it worth the money?

July 25, 2018 Opinion and advice acclimatisation, alpenglow expeditions, altitude chambers, altitude junkies, commercial mountaineering, everest, furtenbach adventures 14 Comments

Flashing on Everest: is it worth the money?

Last month I examined the practice of climbing Everest in a shorter period of time by acclimatising at home and using larger quantities of oxygen during the climb. In this week’s follow up post, I take a look at the cost of these expeditions.

Flashing on Everest: is it safe or sensible?

June 20, 2018 Opinion and advice acclimatisation, adrian ballinger, alpenglow expeditions, altitude chambers, altitude junkies, ben fogle, commercial mountaineering, everest, furtenbach adventures, griffith pugh, harriet tuckey, kenton cool, lukas furtenbach, phil crampton, robert anderson, tibet 35 Comments

Flashing on Everest: is it safe or sensible?

Many teams climbed the north side of Everest this season, but two seemed to get the lion’s share of the attention. These two teams were using new techniques to shorten their expeditions. But was their approach sensible or effective? Let’s have a look.