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Iranian Lhotse expedition lead by Eghbal Aflaky Aghbelsn with 12 members.
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Iranian Lhotse expedition lead by Eghbal Atlaky Aghbelsn with 12 members.
Several of the climbers in their Everest dispatches have mentioned the Iranian climbers. Sounds like everything going fine for them so far (4/23/2002).
Update 5/8/2002: Dear EverestNews.com: We have just got this news few minutes ago during a phone call with Sadegh Aghajani the president of I.R. Iran Mountaineering Federation and leader of Iranian Lhotse Expedition:
All 14 members of the Iranian expedition are healthy and they could climb up to 8000 meter and return to the base camp for a rest. After few days rest and if the weather be good they will climb up to the Summit ”InshAllal”. There are some climbers in team which had already climbed Everest and the route is familiar for them.
Best wishes
Homayoun Bakhtiyari
I.R.Iran Mountaineering Federation
Foreign Secretary
Update 5/13/2002: Six members of the Iranian Lhotse Expedition 2002 left base camp towards camp2 today. They are going to make themselves ready for the summit bid. It has been expected they will leave to summit tomorrow. The second team will leave BC to C2 tomorrow. According to the latest weather forecast received from Iranian meteorological organization the next two today weather will be partly cloudy and it might have 10cm snow so both teams should wait for good weather.
Update 5/15/2002: Dear EverestNews.com, The first team of Iranian reached 8000m of Lhotse today 15.05.02 and second team to 7300 meters.The weather was bad but they strongly climbed up.
The summit bid will be tomorrow very early in the morning at about 2am.First team is contains six climbers and Sherpas. The second team will climb up to 8000m tomorrow to be ready for second summit attacked and stay as the back up of the first team. Members of Iranian expedition are:
1-Sadegh Aghajani (Leader): Everest, Makalu, Cho Oyu, Shishapangma, Gasherbrum II
2-Eghbal Aflaki: (Previous 8000m Climb: Makalu)
3-Reza Zarei: (Previous 8000m Climbs: Makalu – Cho Oyu)
4-Davoud Khadem: (Previous 8000m Climbs: Makalu, Cho Oyu, Shishapangma)
5-Mohammad Oraz: (Previous 8000m Climbs: Everest, Makalu, Cho Oyu, Shishapangma)
6-Mohammad Hassan Najarian: (Previous 8000m Climbs: Everest, Makalu, Gasherbrum II)
7-Jalal Cheshmehghasabani: (Previous 8000m Climbs: Everest, Makalu)
8-Akbar Mehdizadeh: (Previous 8000m Climbs: Makalu, Cho Oyu, Shishapangma)
9-Amin Azimi
10-Hammid Naserri
11-Mahmoud Godarzi
12-Moghbel Honarpajoh
13-Reza Bahodorani
14-Reza Solaimani
Update 5/16/2002: Dear EverestNews.com, They did the 6th one. Six members of Iranian Lhotse expedition successfully climbed 4th highest peak of the world at 11.55 on 16.05.2002. The first team of Iranian expedition left camp 4 at 8000m at 1.30 am and after 10.30 hours could stand on the Lhotse peak. This team was included 6 Iranian and 2 Sherpas. After Summit the are heading down towards camp 2.They had met the second team which remained on camp 4 for the second summit attack.
Second team will probably contains 5-6 climbers and 2 sherpas. They will leave camp 4 to the summit tomorrow early in the morning. Lhotse is the 6th 8000m peak which Iranian could climbed. Congratulate to them and you. All the best, Homayoun
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