Everest | 2017 S Col-SE Ridge

A USA expedition to Everest in 2017 via S Col-SE Ridge, led by Dan Mazur. Summit reached on 20th May 2017. 19 members recorded.

Expedition Details

Field Value
ID 9463
Imported 2026-03-06 18:04:49.359634
Expedition ID EVER17120
Peak ID EVER
Year 2017
Season 1
Host Country 1
Route 1 S Col-SE Ridge
Route 2 -
Route 3 -
Route 4 -
Nationality USA
Leaders Dan Mazur
Sponsor SummitClimb Everest-Lhotse Expedition 2017
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 Australia, Germany, India, Israel, Norway, Poland
Approach Lukla->Namche->Pangboche->Everest BC
Basecamp Date 2017-04-16
Summit Date 2017-05-20
Summit Time 1000
Summit Days 34
Total Days 42
Termination Date 2017-05-28
Termination Reason 1
Termination Notes -
High Point (m) 8849
Traverse False
Ski False
Paraglide False
Camps 4
Fixed Rope (m) 0
Total Members 16
Summit Members 3
Member Deaths 1
Total Hired 17
Summit Hired 2
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 Summited Lhotse (LHOT-171-01)
Campsites BC(16/04,5350m),C1(23/04,6100m),C2(26/04,6500m),C3(29/04,7050m),C4(17/05,8000m),Smt(20-21/05)
Route Notes BC 16/04 5350m C1 23/04 6100m C2 26/04 6500m C3 29/04 7050m C4 17/05 8000m Smt 20/05 by Chhewang Karma and Salte at 10 am Smt 21/05 by Lhakpa Tendu, Szczuraszek and Babij at 1 pm. Summit 20 May: Salte, Anthony Sanchez, Kjoelvik, Yearwood and Borang arrived at C4 on 17 May. The weather was not good (windy and snowing) and they stayed at the South Col until 19 May. They left C4 at 7:30 pm on 19 May. Summiters stayed for about 20 minutes on the summit and descended to C4, where they arrived at 2 pm. Sanchez turned around at the Hillary Step he was too tired. Yearwood reached the Balcony at about 5:30 am. His Sherpa Sange told him to go down as he was so slow, but Yearwood insisted on continuing to the South Summit (8700m), where they arrived at about 3 pm. Yearwood was very confused and finally agreed to go down. He started to descend, but Sange ended up dragging him down for about 2 hours. They reached the Balcony at 7:30 pm. The weather was bad, Yearwood showed severe signs of HACE. He threw his gear around, rolled in the snow, took off his oxygen mask. He died at midnight. Sange stayed with him until he died and descended to C4, where he arrived at 1:30 am on 21 May. On 21 May and 24 May the Sherpas went back up to the Balcony to recover Yearwood's body; however, both times the weather did not allow for a recovery. Mito Borang reached the Balcony (8400m), but the weather was too bad for him and his Sherpa told him to turn back as he was too slow. He decided to turn back to C4 and abandon the climb. Kjoelvik reached C4 on 17 May. He was very sick up there and descended to C2 on 19 May. On 21 May summit team and Hanna Bruss, Sylwia Bajek, Damian Bourke, Krzysztof Sabisz, Szczepan Brzeski left C4 at 7:30 pm. Bruss reached the Balcony, but she was very slow and very tired and descended to C4 with Lhakpa Gelu [from British Gurka team]. Bajek and Brzeski reached the Hillary Step and decided to go down as their oxygen was running low. It was 11 am. They had insisted on climbing on a high flow rate, even though they were told that they would not reach the summit with such a high flow rate (by Pema Renzi). They descended to C4 and stayed the night. They had enough oxygen to sleep on it at a flow rate of 1/2 litre. Damian Bourke got hit by a rock or an oxygen bottle on his way to the summit. He was in the rock field below the Balcony (8300m). He got knocked over and descended to C4, where he stayed the night and on 22 May, he descended to C2 from where he was helicoptered back to Kathmandu. Sabisz reached the South Summit. He was very slow and sick. His Sherpa told him to come down. He descended to C4 with slight HACE, spent the night at C4, on 22 May to C2 and on 23 May to BC. Summit team descended to C4, where they spent the night. Kress reached C3 on 29 April; he left the expedition when he heard about Ueli Steck's death. Mori reached BC but was so dehydrated, the doctor at the HRA clinic gave her two litres of saline at BC. She left the expedition on 20 April. Rigney reached C2 and left expedition due to his bad cough. Mazur stayed at BC as he never intended to climb. Oxygen: C3 to summit to C3 by members; C4 to summit to C4 by Sherpas. Sherpa Summiters: Chhewang Karma, Patle, Okhaldhunga, 28/01/1989 Lhakpa Tendu (Lhakpa Kormu), Patle, Okhaldhunga, 28/03/1977
Accidents Roland Yearwood on 20 May died of HACE
Achievement -
Agency Everest Parivar
Commercial Route True
Standard Route True
Primary Route False
Primary Member False
Primary Reference -
Primary ID -
Checksum 2459956
Year 2017
Summit Success True
O2 Summary Used
Route (lowercase) s col-se ridge

Members

19 recorded members.

Name Sex Year of Birth Citizenship Status Residence Occupation
Daniel Lee (Dan) Mazur M 1960 USA Leader Longbranch, Washington Expedition organizer & leader Details Other expeditions
Juergen Kress M 1969 Germany Climber Merzhausen, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany Salesman Details Other expeditions
Mito Borang M 1991 India Climber Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh, India Student Details Other expeditions
Oshrit Mori F 1976 Israel Climber Mazkeret Batya, Israel - Details Other expeditions
Damian Joseph Bourke M 1965 Australia Climber Brisbane, QLD, Australia Business manager Details Other expeditions
Steiner Salte M 1988 Norway Climber Barum, Oslo, Norway - Details Other expeditions
Ole Jakob Kjoelvik M 1985 Norway Climber Stavanger, Norway Business consultant Details Other expeditions
John E. Rigney M 1950 USA Climber Los ANgeles, California Business management Details Other expeditions
Roland Anthony Yearwood M 1966 USA Climber Georgiana, Alabama Physician Details Other expeditions
Mariusz Andrzej Szczuraszek M 1970 Poland Climber Ostrow Wiekopolski, Poland - Details Other expeditions
Hanna Beata Bruss F 1974 Poland Climber Gdynia, Poland - Details Other expeditions
Sylwia Bajek F 1991 Poland Climber Rzeszow, Poland - Details Other expeditions
Krzysztof Sabisz M 1978 Poland Climber Grudec, Poland - Details Other expeditions
Szczepan Janusz Brzeski M 1979 Poland Climber Bochnia, Poland - Details Other expeditions
Arkadiusz Adam Babij M 1972 Poland Climber Blachownia, Poland - Details Other expeditions
Anthony Olimpio Sanchez M 1966 USA Climber Potomac, Maryland Software engineer Details Other expeditions
Chhewang Karma Sherpa M 1989 Nepal H-A Worker Patle-4, Okhaldhunga - Details Other expeditions
Lhakpa Tendu (Lhakpa Kormu) Sherpa M 1977 Nepal H-A Worker Patle-4, Okhaldhunga - Details Other expeditions
Sange Sherpa M 1971 Nepal H-A Worker Diding-5, Makalu-Barun - Details Other expeditions

References

3 recorded references.

Expedition ID Journal Author Title Publisher Citation Yak 94
EVER17120 - - https://www.summitclimb.com/news/recent/everest-nepal-news/ - - -
EVER17120 - - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4527194/American-physician-dies-climbing-Mount-Everest.html - - -
EVER17120 - - https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/american-climber-dies-on-mount-everest-authorities-say/2017/05/21/7567c3a0-4db2-4528-a6e6-c928e3a9f43c_story.html?utm_term=.bf9f10f51cd0 - - -