List of Mount Everest guides

Mount Everest guides are people who help people to climb Mount Everest in the Himalayas.

A guide helped this group of Canadians trek near to Everest (in the background on top-left), to the nearby Kala Pathar peak.
Climber crossing a chasm in the Khumbu Icefall
Climbing through the yellow band
Looking up at Mount Everest from the south col

Guides can, for example, set fixed lines of rope for others to use, organize rescues in times of trouble, or use communication tools to call in helicopter evacuations.[1][2] Another job on Mount Everest is as an "icefall doctor" using ladders and ropes to make a path across the Khumbu Icefall, which guides might do themselves or delegate to others.[3] Guides, especially if they are guiding for a mountaineering or adventure company, often call the people they help up "clients".[4]

Another task on Everest is helping people with medical problems, although the work can be dangerous.[5] When potentially deadly health conditions strike, the guides can sometimes lose their clients or abort the climb.[6] One mother of two died after developing a health problem at the Everest base camp.[7]

Mount Everest guides assist climbers on what are called "guided" climbs, and guided ascent can cost double an unguided one.[8] Many climbers in more recent times are unguided but can get some support from a Sherpa, which, though more similar to an Alpinist porter, is much cheaper and also called a guide.[8] The term guide can mean something along the lines of an assistant all the way to a World-famous mountaineer.[8]

Guides

Nepali guides
Pem Dorjee Sherpa transverses a crevasse in the ice

Some examples:

Guide firms and organizations


Examples of Guide firms in 2017[47]

  • Adventure Consultants, Adventure Peaks, Adventure Global, Altitude Junkies, Alpenglow, Alpine Ascents International (AAI), Arnold Coster, Furtenbach Adventures, Himalayan Experience (Himex), International Mountain Guides (IMG), Jagged Globe, Kobler & Partner, Madison Mountaineering, Mountain Trip, Mountain Professionals, Benegas Brothers, RMI, Tim Mosedale, 7 Summits Club, Summit Climb
  • Nepali firms: Ascent Himalaya, Asian Trekking, Arun Treks (India Transcend Adventures), Dreamers Destination, Seven Summits Treks, Satori, TAGnepal, Expedition Himalaya, Himalayan Ascent
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See also

References
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  2. USA Today - Mount Everest avalanche survivor: 'I had to survive' - April 27, 2015
  3. Elite Sherpa Dies in Fall on Everest
  4. Record-breaking glory on Mt Everest
  8. The Cost$ of Climbing Everest, 2010
  9. The Guide Putting Everest Expeditions on a Fast Track
  10. PBS - Storm Over Everest
  11. Andy Tyson Stephen Henderson Apr 16, 2015
  13. The Guide Putting Everest Expeditions on a Fast Track
  14. NBC - Inside Dateline
  15. National Geographic
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  22. "Everest and Lhotse in Less Than 21 Hours". Climbing.com. Archived from the original on 20 September 2011. Retrieved 16 October 2011.
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  24. NDTV - Phil C
  25. Conquering life's lows has been the true test of climbing couple's mettle 2007
  26. The Times They Are A Changin': The Effect of Institutional Change on By David Savage, Benno Torgler
  27. "Everest North, Lhakpa Ri and North Col expeditions 2017 - Adventure Peaks". Adventure Peaks. 2017-05-24. Retrieved 2017-06-05.
  28. PBS - Everest Facts
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  30. Everest: Wally Berg
  31. "Everest Expedition News 2011 - Adventure Peaks". Adventure Peaks. 2011-05-12. Retrieved 2017-09-29.
  32. "Alex Abramov / Our team / About Us / Аll projects of 7 Summits Club". 7summitsclub.com. Retrieved 2017-12-12.
  39. Ang Tshering Sherpa
  40. ON TOP OF WORLD: My Everest Adventure By Arjun Vajpai
  41. "Everest: is it right to go back to the top?". The Guardian. 2015-04-12. Retrieved 2018-01-12.
  46. "Аll projects of 7 Summits Club". www.7summitsclub.com. Retrieved 2017-12-12.
  47. [http://www.alanarnette.com/blog/2017/12/08/how-much-does-it-cost-to-climb-mount-everest-2018-edition/
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