Everest | 2019 S Col-SE Ridge

A Argentina expedition to Everest in 2019 via S Col-SE Ridge, led by Ricardo Birn. Summit reached on 22nd May 2019. 6 members recorded.

Expedition Details

Field Value
ID 10216
Imported 2026-03-06 18:04:49.359634
Expedition ID EVER19148
Peak ID EVER
Year 2019
Season 1
Host Country 1
Route 1 S Col-SE Ridge
Route 2 -
Route 3 -
Route 4 -
Nationality Argentina
Leaders Ricardo Birn
Sponsor Prestige Adventure Everest Expedition 2019
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 India
Approach Lukla->Pangboche->Everest BC
Basecamp Date 2019-04-15
Summit Date 2019-05-22
Summit Time 0500
Summit Days 37
Total Days 39
Termination Date 2019-05-24
Termination Reason 1
Termination Notes -
High Point (m) 8849
Traverse False
Ski False
Paraglide False
Camps 4
Fixed Rope (m) 0
Total Members 3
Summit Members 1
Member Deaths 0
Total Hired 3
Summit Hired 1
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(15/04,5300m),C1(28/04,6000m),C2(01/05,6500m),C3(19/05,7300m),C4(21/05,7900m),Smt(22/05)
Route Notes BC 15/04 5300m C1 28/04 6000m C2 01/05 6500m C3 19/05 7300m C4 21/05 7900m Smt 22/05 by Megha Parmar and Nima Nuru Sherpa at 5 am. Schedule of summit push: May 19: Pandey and Parmar slept at C3. On that day, Pandey had been hurt by a rock fall between C2 and C3 on his left knee. May 20: Birn slept at C3, meanwhile Pandey and Parmar slept at C4. That evening, Pandey and Parmar decided not to try due to weather bad conditions (windy). May 21: Birn joined Pandey and Parmar at C4. Pandey and Parmar started for summit at c6:30-7 pm. Pandey stopped at Balcony at c9:30-10 pm due to his left knee injury, reaching back to C4 at 11:30 pm. Parmar continued to climb with her Sherpa. Birn started later at c7:30-8 pm. He reached Balcony at c11-11:30 pm where he abandoned. May 22: Parmar summited at 5 am with her Sherpa and was back to C4 at noon. On return from the summit, she lost one goggle so that she begun to contract snowblindness. Slept at C4 that night with oxygen, with one bottle left by Pandey for her. In the morning, Birn had come back to C4 at c4-5 am, while Pandey was resting in his tent. Pandey found Birn in a serious state of deterioration (apparent symptoms of AMS), cared for him with medicines and food, then helped him to get down at C3 with Sherpas, and also launched rescue via Parajuli of Prestige Adventure. According to Pandey, Birn's oxygen device wasn't working correctly. Same day Pandey continued to C2 where he slept. He had also helped an other member in bad shape. May 23: Birn was rescued from C3 at 8 am to Kathmandu, then went for treatment at Swacon Hospital. As his knee remained too painfull, Pandey was heli-rescued at 4 pm from C2 to BC, on the same day flew to Lukla. Day after to Kathmandu. As she had contracted snowblindness, Parmar couldn't be rescued on that day. She managed to reach C2 however at c8-9 pm where she slept. May 24: Parmar was heli-rescued from C2 to Lukla, then to KTM then went for treatment at CIWEC hospital. Oxygen: from “jumar point” at foot of Lhotse face (6800m) to summit/high point to C3. Sherpas: Ratnesh Pandey with Sangbu Sherpa Megha Parmar with Nima Nuru Sherpa Ricardo Dario Brin with Chebbi Sherpa
Accidents Snowblindness for Parma, knee injury for Pandey, AMS for Birn.
Achievement -
Agency Prestige Adventure
Commercial Route True
Standard Route True
Primary Route False
Primary Member False
Primary Reference False
Primary ID -
Checksum 2461500
Year 2019
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
Ricardo Dario Birn M 1968 Argentina Leader Cordoba, Argentina Gym trainer Details Other expeditions
Ratnesh Pandey M 1985 India Climber Satna, Madhya Pradesh, India Social worker & adventurer Details Other expeditions
Megha Parmar F 1993 India Climber Bhoj Nagar, Sehore, Madhya Pradesh, India Sports education teacher Details Other expeditions
Chhebi Bhote M 1974 Nepal H-A Worker Hungung, Hatiya-1, Makalu-Barun - Details Other expeditions
Sangbu Lama M 1979 Nepal H-A Worker Hatiya-2, Makalu-Barun - Details Other expeditions
Ngima Nuru Sherpa M 1988 Nepal H-A Worker Taksindu-6, Solukhumbu - Details Other expeditions

References

1 recorded references.

Expedition ID Journal Author Title Publisher Citation Yak 94
EVER19148 - - https://thehimalayantimes.com/nepal/three-indian-climbers-make-fake-everest-summit-claim/ - - -