Everest | 2006 N Col-NE Ridge

A USA expedition to Everest in 2006 via N Col-NE Ridge, led by Dan Mazur. Summit reached on 17th May 2006. 15 members recorded.

Expedition Details

Field Value
ID 5275
Imported 2026-03-06 18:04:49.359634
Expedition ID EVER06165
Peak ID EVER
Year 2006
Season 1
Host Country 2
Route 1 N Col-NE Ridge
Route 2 N Col-NE Ridge (up); SE Ridge-S Col (down)
Route 3 -
Route 4 -
Nationality USA
Leaders Dan Mazur
Sponsor SummitClimb Everest Expedition 2006
Success 1 True
Success 2 True
Success 3 False
Success 4 False
Ascent 1 -
Ascent 2 -
Ascent 3 -
Ascent 4 -
Claimed False
Disputed False
Countries Argentina, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, UK
Approach -
Basecamp Date 2006-04-05
Summit Date 2006-05-17
Summit Time 0730
Summit Days 42
Total Days 44
Termination Date 2006-05-19
Termination Reason 1
Termination Notes -
High Point (m) 8849
Traverse True
Ski False
Paraglide False
Camps 3
Fixed Rope (m) 0
Total Members 11
Summit Members 2
Member Deaths 0
Total Hired 5
Summit Hired 3
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(05/04,6400m),ABC(12/04,6400m),C1(21/04,7000m),C2(16/05,7800m),C3(17/05,8000m),Smt(17,22/05)
Route Notes First summit party left C3 at 11:00 pm on 17 May (CST): Crampton, Garcia, Milana, Pacey, Tindale, plus Tibetans Deeching Narup and Norbu. At Second Step Milana developed serious cerebral edema, and Crampton, with Jangbu Sherpa, who came stayed in C3, brought him down to C3; Milana and Jangbu stayed in C3 while Crampton went on C2. Tindale turned around at 8400m because route too difficult for him. Garcia, Pacey and the two Tibetans reached the summit at 7:30 am on 18th May; the two members descended to C3, Tibetans to ABC same day. Second summit party: severe storm with strong wind and heavy snowfall, which kept Crampton pinned down to C2, prevented second summit party from leaving C3 on the night of the 18th to go to the top. They were Brash, Hewson, Mazur, Osborne, Statler, a Tibetan named Aden, and two Sherpas, Jangbu and Dawa. The members abandoned their summit plans. Dawa Sherpa, who had been Statler's Sherpa, launched his bid to traverse Everest alone at 9:00 pm. (NST) on 21 May, reached the summit at 8:40 am on the 22nd, and was down in Nepal side's base camp at 5:15 pm for an elapsed time of 20 hours, 15 minutes. He had hoped to do it in 18 hours. Nevertheless, he set a speed record for Everest traverses. He used two bottles of oxygen from 8300m on the north side to 8500m on the south side. Third summit party of Brash, Crampton, Mazur, Osborne and Jangbu left C3 at midnight (CST) of 25/26 May. Crampton turned back at 6:30 am on the 26th at the First Step (8500m) because his oxygen supply becoming exhausted and his hands were becoming cold. The other four continued up until at the "Mushroom Rock" at about 8550m where they found Lincoln Hall, Australian member of 7 Summits Club expedition led by Alexander Abramov, at 7:20 amm without the top of his down suit on his arms, his gloves and cap off, no oxygen equipment, ice axe and backpack: he was sitting up three feet from the edge of the Kangshung Face. He said to them: "I imagine you guys are suprised to see me here." Mazur: "Yeah, yes I am." Hall: "Can you please tell me how I got here?...You guys on this boat too?" They pulled him away from the edge, secured him with rope tied to his harness and an ice axe, gave him oxygen, food, water and put his hat and gloves back on him, but he kept taking them off and Mazur's party had to keep putting them back on. "He was like a three year old child," said Mazur. They radioed for Sherpas from his expedition to come and get up and get him; when the Sherpas arrived at 11:30 am, he was delirious. Osborne said when they found Hall, "I'm not going to leave this guy here." Brash, the other client in the party, said "Oh God!" he was depressed at the thought of losing his chance for the summit in perfect weather, but he also stayed till the Sherpas came. Now it was too late for the three members and their Sherpa to go for the top, they thought a storm would probably blow up in the early afternoon, and their oxygen supply was running low. Now there could not be another summit bid because the team was running out of oxygen. Oxygen used by all members from C1 to their high points except Brash, Crampton, Garcia, Milana, Tindale and Wells, who used it in C2 and up; all used it down to C2 or when their supply ran out, except Crampton, whose supply had run out at 7550m but he didn't know it. Sherpas and Tibetans from C2 to their high points. Sherpas and Tibetans: Deeching Narup, 20, Pasum Zom village, now Lhasa Norbu, 1980, Latse Aden [Yunden?] Jangbu Sherpa, 24/5/67, Patle, Everest X2 Dawa, 1970, Loding, Solu
Accidents -
Achievement -
Agency Everest Parivar
Commercial Route True
Standard Route True
Primary Route False
Primary Member False
Primary Reference False
Primary ID -
Checksum 2460064
Year 2006
Summit Success True
O2 Summary Used
Route (lowercase) n col-ne ridge

Members

15 recorded members.

Name Sex Year of Birth Citizenship Status Residence Occupation
Andrew J. Brash M 1968 Canada Climber Calgary, Alberta School teacher Details Other expeditions
Philip James (Phil) Crampton M 1970 UK Climber New York, New York Bartender Details Other expeditions
Hector Garcia M 1968 USA Climber London, England Banker Details Other expeditions
Dene William (Deno) Hewson M 1971 New Zealand Climber Tokyo, Japan Human resources manager Details Other expeditions
Daniel Lee (Dan) Mazur M 1960 USA Leader Longbranch, Washington Housebuilder Details Other expeditions
Juan Pablo Milana M 1964 Argentina Climber San Juan City, Argentina Geologist Details Other expeditions
Myles Osborne M 1980 UK Climber Cambridge, Massachusetts Student, university teacher, tutor Details Other expeditions
Colin Pacey M 1954 Australia Climber Sydney, NSW, Australia Engineer Details Other expeditions
Kenneth D. Stalter M 1954 USA Climber Franklin, New York Physician Details Other expeditions
David Monaghan (Mon) Tindale M 1967 UK Climber Workington, Cumbria, England Mechanical engineer Details Other expeditions
Neil Wells M 1967 UK Climber Maidenhead, Berkshire, England Waste management Details Other expeditions
Dechen Ngodup (Deqing Ou Zhu) M 1987 China H-A Worker Tashi Zom, Tingri Dzong, Tibet, China - Details Other expeditions
Dawa Sherpa M 1969 Nepal H-A Worker Loding Tamakhani-9, Solukhumbu - Details Other expeditions
Norbu Dhondup (Luobu Zhandu) M 1980 China H-A Worker Lhatse, Lhatse Dzong, Tibet, China - Details Other expeditions
Jangbu Sherpa M 1967 Nepal H-A Worker Patle-4, Okhaldhunga - Details Other expeditions

References

1 recorded references.

Expedition ID Journal Author Title Publisher Citation Yak 94
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