Everest | 2007 S Col-SE Ridge

A Nepal expedition to Everest in 2007 via S Col-SE Ridge, led by Ang Ngima Sherpa. Summit reached on 21st May 2007. 6 members recorded.

Expedition Details

Field Value
ID 5719
Imported 2026-03-06 18:04:49.359634
Expedition ID EVER07190
Peak ID EVER
Year 2007
Season 1
Host Country 1
Route 1 S Col-SE Ridge
Route 2 -
Route 3 -
Route 4 -
Nationality Nepal
Leaders Ang Ngima Sherpa
Sponsor Democratic Everest Expedition 2007
Success 1 True
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 2007-04-30
Summit Date 2007-05-21
Summit Time 1010
Summit Days 21
Total Days 26
Termination Date 2007-05-26
Termination Reason 1
Termination Notes -
High Point (m) 8849
Traverse False
Ski False
Paraglide False
Camps 3
Fixed Rope (m) 0
Total Members 6
Summit Members 1
Member Deaths 0
Total Hired 0
Summit Hired 0
Hired Deaths 0
No Hired True
O2 Used True
O2 None False
O2 Climb True
O2 Descent False
O2 Sleep False
O2 Medical True
O2 Taken False
O2 Unknown False
Other Summits -
Campsites BC(30/04,5300m),C2(05/05,6500m),C3(06/05,7500m),C4(20/05,7900m),Smt(21/05)
Route Notes BC at 5300m on Khumbu Glacier C2 in Western Cwm C3 on Lhotse West Face C4 at South Col. Bhuwan S. Rai, Ang Ngima and Tshering Pintso left C4 at 00.30 am on 21 May for the summit. Ang Ngima reached summit at 10:10 am, stayed on summit about 45 minutes, descended to C4 at 5 pm, then to C3 at 9 pm. Next day to BC. When Ang Ngima reached summit there was nobody. After a while Da Dendi and Furwa Jangbu Sherpa of Pakistani climber's team came up and the two Sherpas helped taking pictures of Ang Ngima displaying the flags of 8 ruling political parties (first time on summit to have 8 political flags) and some of the human rights organizations and banner of Ang Ngima's sponsors. Ang Ngima placed photographs of martyr of Jana Andolan II (first time the martys photos placed on summit) and a big picture of Buddha given by the Siddhartha Foundation. Ang Ngima also made visual recording for a national song sung by him, written by Durga Lal Shrestha and music composed by Nhyoo Bajracharya. This is first time such visual recording done by Kami Sherpa of Nepal TV Lions Club Expedition Deputy Leader on 16 May. Bhuvan S. Rai went up to 8500m little above balcony on 21 May and had to turn back to South Col due to exhaustion. Ensu Rai went up to may be 300m above C3 on 19 May. He too became exhausted and went down to C2. Ang Rita as planed remained at the BC. Dorje Sherpa did not join the expedition instead he joined other expedition. Tshering Phintso went up to South Summit on 21 May he was tired and turned around to South Col. He tried again on 22 May reached South Summit where he took a rest but became sleepy and got frostbite in four fingers of his left hand and descended to C3 same day and next day to BC. He had treatment at BC and Pheriche and went to his village. Tshering Phintso left BC on 24 May. The expedition team was the last one to summit on that day. Another member of the team Miss Usha Bista reached South Col around 7 pm on 21 May. Bista said upon arriving she asked for water but none of the members of her Sherpa team offered her water. Her water bottles were often stolen (started missing even while she was at BC). Leader Ang Ngima asked her to return and not to try for summit, as she was moving very slowly. Ang Ngima also said to her that other members would not climb with her. They had argument for a while. Then she told Ang Ngima that she would climb with her Sherpa alone. Her Sherpa Kami first hesitated to go with her, but later [agreed] after long discussions he with Bista. While arriving near to Balcony around 4 am of 21 May, Bista's oxygen ran out and she asked Kami to change it. Kami changed the oxygen and she started climbing. After 20 minutes of climbing the new cyclinder also ran out. She suspects that Kami intentionally gave her used oxygen cyclinder. She did not see her Sherpa - he just disappeared. After that she does not remember that what had happened to her. She vaguely remembers two foreigners, one man, another woman and a Sherpa dragging her down to C4. She also remembers that the male member was calling over phone for help. Billi writes in her email of 9 June 9 2007 that Meagan McGrath (Canadian) told her (Billi) that she saw Usha Bista just below the Balcony at about 8350m. She was resting and her oxygen mask was askew and she was very unwell but still on way up. Bista was completely alone. Her oxygen mask cord was wrapped around her neck. McGrath and a guy called Chuck from Alpine Ascents and another Sherpa helped her down for about 20 metres. Dave Hahn (IMG team led by Mark Tucker) arrived and helped drag her to C4, where she was looked after by the doctors. Dave Hahn in his email of 16 June said that when he found Usha Bista, she was semi-conscious, lying on her back at about 8300m. Hahn was with Phinjo Dorjee from Pangboche. Meagan (McGrath), a Canadian climber, was with Usha and had her own oxygen on her as Usha's tank was empty. Hahn added that it was readily apparent to him that Usha had collapsed due to exhaustion and cerebral edema. He wrote that Usha's wrists and hands were quite cold; there was frost on her face. She was continually shaking off her mittens although her thumb was obviously frostbitten already. Hahn wrote that he placed his oxygen setup on Usha, injected her with Decadron (at 9 am) and worked with Phinjo Dorje to drag her downward. Several climbers descending from the summit pitched in to help in the next hour and two climbers from the South Col came up to help (Lhakpa Rita, the Sirdar/guide with AAI, and Michael Brown (cinematographer with Grocott leader Xtreme Everest). Dave Morton of AAI came to the base of the Triangular Face to help get Usha to high camp. Usha was re-warmed and stabilized at the South Col by doctors from the Xtreme Everest Expedition. Many Sherpas from AAI and Adventure Consultants, along with Luis Benitez of Adventure Consultants helped to get Usha to the top of the Geneva Spur and then she was lowered to C3 over next nine hours by a team of seven climbers. Hahn wrote that those seven consisted of himself, Mike Haugen, Casey Grom, Andre Vercueil (a doc from the Xtreme team), a Sherpa from Xtreme team, a Sherpa from the Asian Trekking group and a Sherpa that Hahn was told was from Usha's team (this man was exhausted and not terribly capable of helping, but he was at least present). Then they turned Usha over to the Xtreme docs at C3 at about 9 pm. Hahn said that throughout the day, she'd been going in and out of consciousness and increasingly, as we neared C3 she was crying out in pain. Usha said she became conscious in the moring of 22 May. She was still on oxygen. Then doctors asked about her climb, family, etc. She was brought down to C2 by eight Sherpas. At C2 she was given four packets of saline. On 25 May she was taken down to BC by 3 Sherpas and 5 foreigners. Left BC on 26 May by helicopter. All her fingers and toes were frostbitten and treatment was done at B&B hospital. Her right thumb was amputated after a few days. Rest of the fingers and toes are recovering. She used oxygen from C3 while climbing and was on oxygen when she was brought to hospital all the way from the place where she collapsed. Leader Ang Ngima said that Bista was very very slow. She left C3 at 6 am and reached South Col at 9 pm. He said that he told her not to continue for summit, but she insisted and went up. She reached just below the balcony on 21 May. Democratic Everest expedition led by Ang Ngima Sherpa - Spring 2007 Mike Grocott, leader of Xtreme Everest team of doctors, said on 13 June that the expedition came late to Everest and had little acclimatization. They had no tents of their own at C4 so helped themselves to others empty tents. He was told that Tshering had paid $500 to join the expedition and Usha Bista had paid $12,000 for her membership (she told Jeevan on 7 March that money was no problem for her.) Her rescue involved many teams except her own. Mike Brown of the IMG expedition gave her oxygen and food, and he and David Hahn got her down from the Balcony to C4; Casey Grom and Andre Vercueil of Grocott's team, plus two Grocott Sherpas, Mark Tucker's IMG expedition's Sherpas and other teams Sherpas got her to C3, where Grocott team doctors took care of her, and in C2 other Grocott doctors looked after her. Grocott doctors also helped Tshering with his frostbite.
Accidents -
Achievement -
Agency Arun Treks
Commercial Route True
Standard Route True
Primary Route False
Primary Member False
Primary Reference False
Primary ID -
Checksum 2460479
Year 2007
Summit Success True
O2 Summary Used
Route (lowercase) s col-se ridge

Members

6 recorded members.

Name Sex Year of Birth Citizenship Status Residence Occupation
Ang Ngima (Shaggy) Sherpa M 1981 Nepal Leader Pangkarma, Beni, Solukhumbu Trekking guide & alpinist Details Other expeditions
Usha Bista F 1986 Nepal Climber Khairiphat, Patharaiya-8, Kailali Chairperson of community forest users group Details Other expeditions
Bhuwan Singh Rai M 1972 Nepal Climber Jubing-2, Solukhumbu Trekking guide and alpinist Details Other expeditions
Ensu (Endra) Rai M 1967 Nepal Climber Salleri-5, Solukhumbu Trekking guide and alpinist Details Other expeditions
Ang Rita Sherpa M 1948 Nepal Climber Yilajung, Khumbu Alpinist Details Other expeditions
Tshering Phintso Sherpa M 1966 Nepal Climber Pangboche, Khumbu Trekking guide and mountain hut owner Details Other expeditions

References

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