Everest | 2023 S Col-SE Ridge

A Norway expedition to Everest in 2023 via S Col-SE Ridge, led by Kristin Harila. Summit reached on 23rd May 2023. 2 members recorded.

Expedition Details

Field Value
ID 11080
Imported 2026-03-06 18:04:49.359634
Expedition ID EVER23124
Peak ID EVER
Year 2023
Season 1
Host Country 1
Route 1 S Col-SE Ridge
Route 2 -
Route 3 -
Route 4 -
Nationality Norway
Leaders Kristin Harila
Sponsor Seven Summit Treks (SST) Everest-Lhotse Exp 2023 (Kristin Harila)
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 -
Summit Date 2023-05-23
Summit Time 0845
Summit Days 0
Total Days 0
Termination Date -
Termination Reason 1
Termination Notes -
High Point (m) 8849
Traverse False
Ski False
Paraglide False
Camps 4
Fixed Rope (m) 0
Total Members 1
Summit Members 1
Member Deaths 0
Total Hired 1
Summit Hired 1
Hired Deaths 0
No Hired False
O2 Used True
O2 None False
O2 Climb True
O2 Descent False
O2 Sleep False
O2 Medical False
O2 Taken False
O2 Unknown False
Other Summits Summited Lhotse (LHOT-231-12)
Campsites BC,C1,C2,C3,C4,Smt(23/05)
Route Notes Everest and Lhotse done! Kristin set new records this weekend by summiting Everest (yesterday 8:45 am) and Lhotse (5:50 pm) in 8 hours and 35 minutes, beating her own record from last year as the fastest female to traverse Everest-Lhotse. She spent a total of 28 hours climbing from C4 to Everest, Lhotse and descending to base camp. "It was a struggle. The weather got worse, but it was no turning back. I am tired, but very happy", Kristin says after descending safely to base camp Everest. She has now climbed five 8000ers in just 24 days, a new record! She and her team from 8k Expeditons are soon heading for Makalu, to complete the first phase of Bremont14Peaks. -------- The story from Everest and Lhotse, 8848m and 8516m, May 23rd 2023. It's always nice to come back to Everest and the big circus that is the Everest BC, it's a totally other game, so many climbers and so many people! We started up Khumbu icefall from 2 am, we actually had a really nice climb up with @jake_climber and Lama It took us 6h up to C2. We were in good shape and decided to leave directly to C4 the next night. After an 8h climb, we arrived in C4. I had put on oxygen from C3. It's most normal to sleep in C3 but we decided to skip that since we wanted to try for the summit as soon as possible. We had the whole day to rest at C4 and at 9:30pm Lama and me started to climb up to the summit. There is not so many people that early, so we were out before the queue and the people. We had nice pace up and reached the summit after 5:30h, it's my fastest climb up Everest ever! On the summit it was totally dark, super cold and windy. After taking some pictures, we went down to C4 in less than 2h where we took a short short break with water and snacks before started climbing up Lhotse. In Lhotse couloir there is more snow than Everest and not so many people. While climbing we had a problem with one oxygen bottle, so we weren't able to use it. In the last 50 mins of the climb up, Lama was without oxygen but we took it slow and he was in good shape. After 7:45h, we reached the Lhotse summit, where we had a beautiful view. So we took some pictures and started climb down fast because we had no more oxygen and a long climb down. We took a short break in C2 before going all the way down. Tenjin Sherpa was a super hero (again) and made us move so fast. Which is very important in this kind of project, he is really an amazing amazing sherpa. It was super nice to be back down in Everest ABC where 14 Peaks Expedition had a super nice base camp. Thank you Seven Summit Treks for getting me such a luxury tent. I'm super happy to have done Everest and Lhotse for the third time and in the same day again! And super happy to be back in KTM with Jens, and taking some days rest before the next climb.
Accidents -
Achievement -
Agency Seven Summit Treks
Commercial Route True
Standard Route True
Primary Route False
Primary Member False
Primary Reference False
Primary ID -
Checksum 2464496
Year 2023
Summit Success True
O2 Summary Used
Route (lowercase) s col-se ridge

Members

2 recorded members.

Name Sex Year of Birth Citizenship Status Residence Occupation
Kristin Harila F 1986 Norway Leader Vestre Jakobselv, Norway - Details Other expeditions
Tenzing (Tenzen) Sherpa M 1987 Nepal H-A Worker Makalu-9, Makalu-Barun - Details Other expeditions

References

2 recorded references.

Expedition ID Journal Author Title Publisher Citation Yak 94
EVER23124 - - https://explorersweb.com/kristin-harila-bags-everest-and-lhotse-within-eight-hours/ - - -
EVER23124 - - https://thehimalayantimes.com/nepal/kristin-harila-scales-everest-lhotse-in-8hrs-completing-six-8000ers-in-less-than-a-month - - -