Everest | 2000 N Col-NE Ridge

A UK expedition to Everest in 2000 via N Col-NE Ridge, led by David Allason-Pritt. Summit reached on 17th May 2000. 16 members recorded.

Expedition Details

Field Value
ID 3565
Imported 2026-03-06 18:04:49.359634
Expedition ID EVER00140
Peak ID EVER
Year 2000
Season 1
Host Country 2
Route 1 N Col-NE Ridge
Route 2 -
Route 3 -
Route 4 -
Nationality UK
Leaders David Allason-Pritt
Sponsor Everest 2000
Success 1 True
Success 2 False
Success 3 False
Success 4 False
Ascent 1 346
Ascent 2 -
Ascent 3 -
Ascent 4 -
Claimed False
Disputed False
Countries Australia, Netherlands, New Zealand
Approach Kodari->Tingri->BC
Basecamp Date 2000-04-08
Summit Date 2000-05-17
Summit Time 1130
Summit Days 39
Total Days 53
Termination Date 2000-05-31
Termination Reason 1
Termination Notes -
High Point (m) 8849
Traverse False
Ski False
Paraglide False
Camps 3
Fixed Rope (m) 0
Total Members 16
Summit Members 2
Member Deaths 0
Total Hired 4
Summit Hired 0
Hired Deaths 0
No Hired False
O2 Used True
O2 None False
O2 Climb True
O2 Descent False
O2 Sleep True
O2 Medical False
O2 Taken False
O2 Unknown False
Other Summits -
Campsites BC(08/04,5300m),ABC(12/04,6400m),C1(16/04,7000m),C2(29/04,7800m),C3(16/05,8300m),Smt(17/05)
Route Notes Horrex, Vrijlandt and Walters started climbing from C2 at 3:30 am of 17th May. Horrex turned around from 2nd Step at about 8:45 am because he felt very tired. Vrijlandt and Walters reached the summit at about 11:30 am of 17th May spent 30 minutes, took photographs. They met Japanese group on the top. While on the summit they talked to BC on radio, enjoyed scenery. Weather was perfect: calm and clear. Two summiters returned to C3 at 3 pm and further went down to C2 at about 6 pm of 17th and spent night over there. Walters does not want to climb again Everest, but Vrijlandt wants to climb again Everest from south side. Walters had snowblind problem for some 2 hours. He found his eyes painful while they started descending. Though he was snowblind he could see a little so he managed to come down to C2. Sherpas from C2 helped him to go down. * Used fixed rope below C3 and there was old rope on various places above C3. While coming down there was new rope fixed by Japanese group which they also used. On 18th and 24th of May Arnold, Dent, Jewell, Le Poole, Newey and Pearson attempted for summit, but due to wind and bad weather they could not go beyond 8500m. Callingham, Cottam and Walker left BC for Kathmandu in mid-April because Callingham and Cottam had altitude problems and Walker had eye hemorrhage. Groenendaal, Le Poole, Newey and Pearson left BC two days before the last group because they had to fly back home. Sherpas waited at C2 as their job was not to go above. Cameraman De Wert reached the bottom of North Col. Vrijlandt used oxygen from C3 until he came down to C2. Walters reached C3 without oxygen, slept with oxygen at C3 and used oxygen to go to summit and to come down to C2.
Accidents Snowblind, altitude problem, eye hemorrhage
Achievement 1st Dutch from North side and 1st British from north side in new millenium
Agency Asian Trekking
Commercial Route True
Standard Route True
Primary Route False
Primary Member False
Primary Reference -
Primary ID -
Checksum 2457687
Year 2000
Summit Success True
O2 Summary Used
Route (lowercase) n col-ne ridge

Members

16 recorded members.

Name Sex Year of Birth Citizenship Status Residence Occupation
David (Dave) Allason-Pritt M 1959 UK Leader Kendal, Cumbria, England Teacher Details Other expeditions
Farida (Fredie) Allason-Pritt F 1957 UK BC Manager Kendal, Cumbria, England Office manager Details Other expeditions
Dave Arnold M 1957 UK Climber Kilcreggan, Dunbarton, Scotland Submarine engines engineer Details Other expeditions
Robert (Rob) Callingham M 1959 UK Climber Backbarrow, Cumbria, England Physician Details Other expeditions
Michael (Mick) Cottam M 1963 UK Climber Preston, Lancashire, England Lecturer on arborculture Details Other expeditions
Bill Dent M 1963 UK Climber Ashbourne, Derbyshire, England Computer analyst Details Other expeditions
Tjitte De Wert M 1976 Netherlands Climber Montpellier, Herault, France Cameraman Details Other expeditions
Margaretha Groenendaal F 1972 Netherlands Climber Amsterdam, Netherlands Logistic consultant Details Other expeditions
David Alexander Horrex M 1962 UK Climber Erpingham, Norfolk, England Student Details Other expeditions
David Jewell M 1967 New Zealand Climber Wellington, New Zealand Computer programmer Details Other expeditions
Steven Le Poole M 1968 Netherlands Climber Amsterdam, Netherlands Business development Details Other expeditions
Richard David Newey M 1965 UK Climber Bournemouth, Dorset, England Property developer Details Other expeditions
Michael John (Mike) Pearson M 1956 UK Climber Oswestry, Shropshire, England Manager Details Other expeditions
Frederick (Frits) Vrijlandt M 1967 Netherlands Climber Amsterdam, Netherlands Architect Details Other expeditions
Adrian Walker M 1963 UK Climber Helensburgh, Argyll, Scotland Royal Navy technician Details Other expeditions
Paul Walters M 1965 Australia Climber Dahran, Saudi Arabia Teacher Details Other expeditions

References

4 recorded references.

Expedition ID Journal Author Title Publisher Citation Yak 94
EVER00140 HIGH - - - 219:67 (Feb 2001) -
EVER00140 - - http://www.k2news.com/medical.htm - - -
EVER00140 - - http://www.climbpreston.co.uk/NewsletterExtracts/Everest2k.html - - -
EVER00140 - - http://www.mount-everest.nl - - -