Kyajo Ri - Expedition News - 4th October 2025

Leader: Dave Fisher

21st October 2025 - Summit Success on Kyajo Ri

After an early flight this morning and drive from Ramechhap, the team are now safely back in Kathmandu and looking forward to showers and celebrations.

17th October 2025 - Summit Success on Kyajo Ri

After a 3am start, most of the team reached the summit at 6.12am, aftwr watching a stunning sun rise with clear sky's and no wind, cloud inversion lower down. Matt reached the summit a little later with one of the climbing sherpa's. All back at col camp, moving to glacier camp pm, bc tomorrow, Namche 19th, Lukla 20th.

16th October 2025 - Summit Bid Planned for Tomorrow.

Dave has messgaed to say the team moved up to South Col camp this morning at 5700m. They plan to make their summit bid tomorrow, starting out at 3am. The weather forecast is looking good, so we wish them well for their attempt.

12th October 2025 - Acclimatisation to Lake Camp

Yesterday, the team made their way from Khunde to Base Camp. Today, they walked up to Lake camp and back for some acclimatisation.

10th October 2025 - Trek to Khunde

Today the team have trekked up to the village of Khunde, our last tea house before moving up to base camp tomorrow. We had a leisurely journey up, stopping off at the Everest museum, another stop at the Everest View Hotel to top up the ginger tea levels, lunch in Khumjung as we passed through, before reaching our destination.

9th October 2025 - Ascent of Khunde Peak

Due to the distuption caused by the high rainfall in the region prior to the start of our expedition, there has been a delay in getting the equipment needed for the climbing into Lukla and up to our base camp. This equipment has now caught us up today. Because of this we are spending an extra night tonight in Namche. We put the extra day to good use with a walk up to the village of khunde, then an ascent of Khunde Peak at 4200m, a great bit of extra acclimatisation before reaching base camp. Tomorrow we retrace our steps to the Village of Khunde for an overnight stay, then move up to our 1st camp the following day.

8th October 2025 - Everest View Hotel

Following an overnight in Phakding, the team made the beautiful trek along the Dhubh Kosi river, crossing the numerous wire bridges and dodging the trains of Jhopkya carrying goods up and down the trail, untill eventually reaching the heart of the sherpa kingdom, Namche Bazaar yesterday. Today is an acclimatisation day, we trekked up to the famous Everest View Hotel at 3880m, taking in the spectacular first view of Everest, Lhotse, and Ama Dablam whilst enjoying some mid morning ginger tea and cake. Continuing our trek to the village of Khumjung for lunch, a visit to the monastery, then back to Namche Bazaar for another night

6th October 2025 - Team Have Flown to Lukla

This morning the helicoptered to Lukla. Due to the recent weather situation in Nepal and the landslides that have happened, the team decided to not risk the additional delays and opted for the helicopter option to Lukla. They have now started their trek to Phakding.

5th October 2025 - Arrival in Kathmandu

The team all arrive in Kathmandu