Daily Video Journal of the Sophie Denis' Lhotse climb

Day 1 - 05-14-11

Lhotse Base Camp : First weather report feedback
On the 18/19th the wind should low down early morning and it should start snowing in the afternoon. So we are trying to hit a very small weather window just few hours of ok weather. 

Feedback on weather report

http://vimeo.com/24160778

Day 2 - 05-15-11
Lhotse Base Camp : We are leaving tomorrow morning
I am pretty sick. I have a nasty sore throat and some stomach issues. Due to bad weather we postpone by a day our climbing summit push.We are leaving tomorrow instead of today . I am happy because I have one more rest day to recover.

http://vimeo.com/24253005

Day 3 - 05-16-11

Lhotse Base Camp to Camp 2

http://vimeo.com/24264424

Day 4 - 05-17-11
Camp 2 to Camp 3

http://vimeo.com/24253752

Day 5 - 05-18-11
Camp 3 to Camp 4

http://vimeo.com/24263713

DAY 6 - SUMMIT PUSH

We start climbing pretty late due to the bad weather condition. It was snowing for 12h straight. We start at 4am, then along the climb we had the bad surprise to discover that the line was not fixed. So Tsering and I start fixing the line. We fixed about 100m. Thankfully, the Himex Sherpa team came up that day  o fix the line, so our job was done.

Early Morning Feedback

http://vimeo.com/24254398

Feedback before climbing the icy couloir

http://vimeo.com/24325968

We fixed 100m rope - happy to have helped ...

http://vimeo.com/24326764

Himex Sherpa fixing the line on Lhotse - deep snow

http://vimeo.com/24327394

almost there ....

http://vimeo.com/24254774

Last steps ...

http://vimeo.com/24340833

5m away from the top

http://vimeo.com/24341338

Sophie's big smile at the top of Mount Lhotse. Sophie summit at 3pm on 05/19/11

Panoramic view from the summit of Lhotse. (you can see Makalu, Everest, Cho Oyu ... )

http://vimeo.com/24254888

View of Everest on the way down from Lhotse Summit .... SPLENDID

http://vimeo.com/24342408

Day 7 - 05-20-11
Camp 3 to Camp 2

We start from Camp 3 pretty late due to the bad weather. Once arrived at Camp 2 at 11am, we had lunch. When we finished packing our personal stuff at Camp, 2 it was already noon. We were tired from our climb and it was a bite late to go to the ice fall. So we've decided to stay and sleep at Camp 2. (We are in no rush, so let's take it easy and try to take a minimum of risk in the Ice fall.)

http://vimeo.com/24254923

Day 8 - 05-21-11
Camp 2 to Base Camp

Breakfast at Camp 2

http://vimeo.com/24352199

World Record of Altitude in Paragliding

(the tiny red dot is Babu and Lakpa view from Camp 1)

http://vimeo.com/24354370

Crossing crevasse in Kumbu Ice fall is a very slow and quite dangerous process

video coming soon

Pumori big Avalanche

When you climb Mount Everest or Lhotse, you mainly hear 2 sounds : the sound of avalanches and the sound of crevasses cracking (under your tent)

video coming soon

Day 9 - 05-22-11

Last Day at Base Camp

http://vimeo.com/24344340