Everest | 2006 N Col-NE Ridge

A Bahrain expedition to Everest in 2006 via N Col-NE Ridge, led by Adnan Al Qassab. Summit reached on 12th April 2006. 2 members recorded.

Expedition Details

Field Value
ID 5299
Imported 2026-03-06 18:04:49.359634
Expedition ID EVER06190
Peak ID EVER
Year 2006
Season 1
Host Country 2
Route 1 N Col-NE Ridge
Route 2 -
Route 3 -
Route 4 -
Nationality Bahrain
Leaders Adnan Al Qassab
Sponsor Bahraini Team to Everest
Success 1 False
Success 2 False
Success 3 False
Success 4 False
Ascent 1 -
Ascent 2 -
Ascent 3 -
Ascent 4 -
Claimed False
Disputed False
Countries -
Approach -
Basecamp Date 2006-04-10
Summit Date 2006-04-12
Summit Time -
Summit Days 2
Total Days 3
Termination Date 2006-04-13
Termination Reason 7
Termination Notes Abandoned at 5800m due to altitude sickness
High Point (m) 5800
Traverse False
Ski False
Paraglide False
Camps 0
Fixed Rope (m) 0
Total Members 2
Summit Members 0
Member Deaths 0
Total Hired 0
Summit Hired 0
Hired Deaths 0
No Hired True
O2 Used False
O2 None True
O2 Climb False
O2 Descent False
O2 Sleep False
O2 Medical False
O2 Taken True
O2 Unknown False
Other Summits -
Campsites BC(5200m),IC(11/04,5800m),xxx(12/04,5800-6400m)
Route Notes Bahraini media gives name of leader as Adnan Al Qassab, not Adnan Al Jaber. Billi Bierling - 14 April 2006 I met them in front of the Annapurna Hotel on 14 April. Both members told me that they had arrived in KTM on the previous day (13 April). The reason for their return was that Al-Qassimi got altitude sickness at ABC. They said that were returning to BC on 16 April. Both according to Mr Rai of Thamserku Trekking never intended to go back to Everest. They went back to Bahrain. Mr Rai was asked not to disclose any more details on the climbers. Other mountaineers doubted that the two even got as far as ABC. Phil Crampton told Miss Hawley that he did not think that they had time to get higher than intermediate camp. In an interview in "The Gulf Daily News" on 20 May 2006 Al-Jaber claimed they got to 8500m. Phil Crampton - 31 August 2006 They never got higher than ABC and probably not higher than intermediate camp at 5800m. It is 24 km from BC to ABC. One got altitude sickness in BC, the other higher and they left mountain right away. If seen by Billi Biering in KTM on 14th and said they had left BC on 13th, not likely they got above intermediate camp - there was a serious shortage of transport. Dominic Faulkner - by emails 1 and 4 Sept 2006 Unlikely they reached ABC; did not return to mountain after mid-April trip to Ktm. Commentary of the Bahrainis Everest Climb by E. Hawley - 4 Sept 2006 There is the case of the two men from the Gulf state of Bahrain who set out to be the first Arabs to reach the summit of Everest on any Arab's first attempt, although they had never before been higher than 2000 meters. Adnan Al Jaber and Faraj Al Qassimi arrived in Kathmandu on 20 March to conquer the 8850m high peak. They made a nine-day acclimatization trek, not a technical climb, in Nepal's Everest area at altitudes of 4500-5000m before going to base camp in Tibet. When they returned to Kathmandu in mid-April, they would say only that one of them got altitude sickness but they were going back very soon. Instead, they left the area completely. Apparently they reached no higher than intermediate camp at 5800m. They had not been on the mountain long enough to have reached even advance base camp at 6400m. On return to Bahrain, however, they claimed triumphantly to have reached 8500m. "We were so close ... We could see the Everest peak," Al Jaber is quoted by the Gulf Daily News as saying. (One cannot see the summit of Everest from that altitude on the north side). They gave a chatty interview to the paper, spoke of the kindly help they had received from the Crown Prince to solicit funds, the training they devised to get in shape, how awesome their first sight of Everest was, how one must have "a 100 percent positive attitude" without which "you might kill yourself," and how unpleasant their experience was in the mountain's cold and rarefied atmosphere. But the published interview provided extremely few details of their actual climb, which is not surprising if they did very little.
Accidents -
Achievement -
Agency Thamserku Trekking
Commercial Route True
Standard Route True
Primary Route False
Primary Member False
Primary Reference False
Primary ID -
Checksum 2460029
Year 2006
Summit Success False
O2 Summary None
Route (lowercase) n col-ne ridge

Members

2 recorded members.

Name Sex Year of Birth Citizenship Status Residence Occupation
Adnan Al Qassab M 1961 Bahrain Leader Isa Town, Bahrain Telecom company employee in public relations Details Other expeditions
A. Wahab Faraj Al Qassimi M 1976 Bahrain Climber Manama, Bahrain - Details Other expeditions

References

0 recorded references.