Everest diaries: A ‘pretty brutal’ journey through Khumbu Icefall before weather impacts climb

"A couple of days at base camp? Scrap that, we’re making ourselves at home." Galway-born Johnny Ward is documenting his 50-day journey to the top of Everest, the highest mountain peak in the world, weekly on irishexaminer.com.

Johnny Ward shares an update from his Everest climb, including the journey through Khumbu Icefall

May 2 

Just got back to base camp. Furtenbach Adventures try to keep you healthy, well fed, etc. A lot of the time failure for Everest is people getting sick. Sometimes you get heavy news. We were at camp two last night and there was a guy from another operator sitting in camp.