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20.5.2009 The Summit Team is going up, C4 > 8848

All 4 team members that summitted are now back in C4 for some eating and drinking. Then moving to C3 for overnight sleep. Tomorrow decending all the way to BC.

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Airborne Ranger Club Team summitted Mount Everest south side today at 07:50 AM, reports Juha this morning. The central lock is on top of the world.
The summiteers are Tomi Myllys and the rest summit team followed behind.

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Tomi reached the south summit at 06:45 and Antti + Jussi followed. Arri is about 1/2 h back.

Next there is 1h to the Hillary Step and finally last 1h to the summit itself.

Mikko and Esa are back in C4 in good shape.

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Today at 05:00 AM Arri reached The Balcony and Esa has turned back to C4.

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Today after 4 hours past midnight Antti, Jussi and Tomi are on Balcony. Esa and Arri followed a little behind and Mikko has turned back to C4.
Night is clear and wind is low - everything is fine on way to summit.