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1998 Everest Summits Page

1998 North Side Everest Summits

Number	Date	Name
1.	5/18/98	Surendra Chavan (35)	India	India Expedition	First Summit of the Year !
2.	5/18/98	Dawa Tashi Sherpa	Nepal	India Expedition	His 6th
3.	5/18/98	Dawa Nuru Sherpa	Nepal	India Expedition	His 2nd
4.	5/18/98	Thomting (aka Tamtim) Sherpa	Nepal	India Expedition
5.	5/18/98	Nawang Tenzing Sherpa	Nepal	India Expedition
6.	5/18/98	Hidetoshi Kurahashi (38)	Japan	JWAP
7.	5/18/98	Masaru (aka Ken) Sato (44)	Japan	JWAP
8.	5/18/98	Koichi Nagata (40)	Japan	JWAP
9.	5/18/98	Masaharu (aka Shoji?) Sakamoto (38)	Japan	JWAP
10.	5/18/98	Hisashi Hashimoto (45)	Japan	JWAP
11.	5/18/98	Ang Mingma Sherpa	Nepal	JWAP
12.	5/18/98	Evgeni Vinogradski (51)	Russian	Russian Expedition	His 3rd
13.	5/18/98	Alexei Bolotov (35)	Russian	Russian Expedition
14.	5/18/98	Sergei Timofeev (40)	Russian	Russian Expedition
15.	5/18/98	Valeri Pershin (51)	Russian	Russian Expedition
16.	5/18/98	Victor Kulbachenko (36)	Belorussia	Russian Expedition
17.	5/18/98	Toshiya Nakajima (33)	Japan	Showa Alpine Club
18.	5/18/98	Shoji Abe (34)	Japan	Showa Alpine Club
19.	5/18/98	Pasang Kami Sherpa (24)	Nepal	Showa Alpine Club	His 4th
20.	5/18/98	Na Temba Sherpa (42)	Nepal	Showa Alpine Club	His 6th
21.	5/18/98	Ang Gyalzen Sherpa	Nepal	Showa Alpine Club	His 3rd
22.	5/19/98	Luvraj Dharmasattu	India	India Expedition
23.	5/19/98	Phinzo Norbu Sherpa	Nepal	India Expedition	His 2nd

24.	5/19/98	Nima Gyalzen Sherpa	Nepal	India Expedition
25.	5/19/98	Mingma Tshering Sherpa (27)	Nepal	JCYE	his 4th
26.	5/19/98	Tshering Dorjee Sherpa (24)	Nepal	JCYE
27.	5/19/98	Pasang Kyidar aka Pasang Kitar (20)	Nepal	JCYE
28.	5/19/98	Hiromichi Kamimura (33)	Japan	Showa Alpine Club
29.	5/19/98	Hitoshi Onodera (47)	Japan	Showa Alpine Club
30.	5/19/98	Chuwang Nima Sherpa (31)	Nepal	Showa Alpine Club	his 5th
31.	5/19/98	Dawa Tshering Sherpa (32)	Nepal	Showa Alpine Club	his 4th
32.	5/19/98	Noriyuki Muraguchi (41)	Japan	TV Asahi
33.	5/19/98	Minoru Sawada (28)	Japan	TV Asahi
34.	5/19/98	Radek Jaros (35)	Czech	Czech Republic	(without oxygen)
35.	5/19/98	Valdimir Nosek (35)	Czech	Czech Republic	(without oxygen)
36.	5/19/98	Peter Hamor	Slovak	Slovak Expedition
37.	5/19/98	Vladimir Zboja	Slovak	Slovak Expedition
38.	5/19/98	Vladimir Plulik	Slovak	Slovak Expedition	(without oxygen)
39.	5/20/98	Toshiaki Yano (45)	Japan	JWAP
40.	5/20/98	Yoshinori Kawahara (57)	Japan	JWAP
41.	5/20/98	Gyalzen Sherpa	Nepal	JWAP
42	5/21/98	Anatoli Moshnikov (45)	Russian	Russian Expedition	His 2nd
43	5/21/98	Giles Roman (28)	France	Russian Expedition
44	5/22/98	Rustam Radgapov aka Rustam Radjapov (40)	Uzbekistan	Uzbekistan Expedition
45	5/22/98	Sergei Arsentiev (39)	Russian/USA	Russian Expedition	Died trying to save his wife, during a rescue attempt. His second both without oxygen
46	5/22/98	Francis Arsentiev-Distefano (40)	USA	Russian Expedition	First American woman to summit North side without oxygen, but died descending
47	5/22/98	Kazumi Kondo (aka Kazuyoshi Kondo) (56)	Japan	JWAF
48	5/22/98	Dawa Sherpa	Nepal	JWAF
49	5/23/98	Sergei Sokolov (27)	Uzbekistan	Uzbekistan Expedition
50	5/23/98	Sventlana Baskakova (41)	Uzbekistan	Uzbekistan Expedition	A Woman
51	5/23/98	Marat Usaev (32)	Uzbekistan	Uzbekistan Expedition
52	5/23/98	Andrei Fedorov (29)	Uzbekistan	Uzbekistan Expedition

53	5/23/98	Oleg Grigoriev (34)	Uzbekistan	Uzbekistan Expedition
54	5/24/98	Ci Luo	China	Sino-Slovak Joint Exp
55	5/24/98	Jangmu Sherpa	Nepal	South African Expedition
56	5/24/98	Lhakpa Gelu Sherpa	Nepal	South African Expedition	5th
57	5/24/98	Turkhvatullin Ilias (40)	Uzbekistan	Uzbekistan Expedition
58	5/24/98	Zaikin Andrei (33)	Uzbekistan	Uzbekistan Expedition
59	5/24/98	Dokukin Alexei (30) aka Aleksei Dukukin	Uzbekistan	Uzbekistan Expedition
60	5/24/98	Balmagambetov Khanif (39)	Uzbekistan	Uzbekistan Expedition
61	5/24/95	Maz Roman (30)	Uzbekistan	Uzbekistan Expedition
62	5/25/98	Craig John (40)	USA	American Expedition
63	5/25/98	Danuru Sherpa aka Dawa Nuru	Nepal	American Expedition
64	5/25/98	Lhakpa Rita Sherpa (27)	Nepal	American Expedition
65	5/25/98	Sumiyo Tsuzuki (30)	Japan	Himalayan Experience
66	5/25/98	Karsang Namgyal Sherpa	Nepal	Himalayan Experience	his second; Ang Rita Sherpa's son
67	5/25/98	Russell Brice	New Zealand	Himalayan Experience
68	5/25/98	Mark Jennings	UK		Died coming down.
69	5/25/98	Nima Wangchhuk Sherpa aka Nima Wangchu	Nepal	With Mark Jennings
70	5/26/99	Heinz Rockenbauer	Austria
71	5/27/98	Richard Alpert (27)	USA	American Expedition
72	5/27/98	Robert Sloezen (44)	USA	American Expedition	3rd
73	5/27/98	Panuru Sherpa (30)	Nepal	American Expedition	3rd

1998 South Side Everest Summits

EverestNews.com is reporting 21 first day climbers to reach the summit, with a total of 44 summits from the South Side this spring. This 44 includes two by Jeff Rhoads and two by Tashi Tshering.

Number	Date	Name
1	5/20/98	Apa Sherpa (38)	Nepal	EEE	First on the South Side 98, his ninth time
2	5/20/98	Nima Rita Sherpa (40)	Nepal	EEE	Fourth time
3	5/20/98	Ang Passang Sherpa (30)	Nepal	EEE
4	5/20/98	Chuldim Nuru Sherpa (30)	Nepal	EEE
5	5/20/98	Pemba Norbu Sherpa (32)	Nepal	EEE
6	5/20/98	Pasquale Vincent Scatorro (45)	USA	EEE
7	5/20/98	Robert H. Hoffman (55)	USA	EEE
8	5/20/98	Don N. Beavon (42)	USA	EEE
9	5/20/98	Charles H. Demerest (55)	USA	EEE
10	5/20/98	Mark L. Cole (45)	USA	EEE
11	5/20/98	Arita aka Aarita Sherpa (38)	Nepal	EEE	2nd
12	5/20/98	Gyalzen Sherpa (45)	Nepal	EEE
13	5/20/98	Wallace Berg (43)	USA	GPS	Fourth time
14	5/20/98	Jeffery Rhoads (44)	USA	Everest Challenge
15	5/20/98	Tashi Tshering Sherpa (28)	Nepal	Everest Challenge
16	5/20/98	Hamid Reza Olanj (29)	Iran	Iranian Expedition
17	5/20/98	Mohammad Oraz (29)	Naghadeh	Iranian Expedition
18	5/20/98	Mohammad Hassen Najarian (33)	Kelardasht	Iranian Expedition
19	5/20/98	Jalal Cheshmeh Ghasabani (39)	Nahavand	Iranian Expedition
20	5/20/98	Chuldim Sherpa (30)	Nepal	Iranian Expedition
21	5/20/98	Dawa Tenji Sherpa (34)	Nepal	Iranian Expedition	2nd

22	5/20/98	Pemba Rinzi Sherpa	Nepal	Iranian Expedition
23	5/25/98	Bernardo Gurachi (43)	Bolivia		First Native South American Indian
24	5/25/98	Edwin Cheok Wai Siew (29)	Malaysian	Singapore
25	5/25/98	Swee Chiow (34)	Malaysian	Singapore
26	5/25/98	Dorjee Sherpa (32)	Nepal	Singapore	3rd
27	5/25/98	Nawang Phurba Sherpa (30)	Nepal	Singapore
28	5/25/98	Kami Rita Sherpa (28)	Nepal	Singapore	3rd
29	5/25/98	Phurba Sherpa aka Fura Dorje (38)	Nepal	Singapore
30	5/25/98	Dave Walsh (54)	UK	HKE
31	5/25/98	Sundeep Dhillon (28)	UK	HKE
32	5/25/98	Nima Gomba Sherpa (29)	Nepal	HKE
33	5/25/98	Kusang Dorje Sherpa (38)	Nepal	HKE
34	5/25/98	Nima Dorjee Sherpa (31)	Nepal	HKE
35	5/27/98	Neil Laughton (34)	British	HGE
36	5/27/98	Edward ( Bear) Grylls (24)	British	HGE
37	5/27/98	Pasang Dawa Sherpa (22)	Nepal	HGE
38	5/27/98	Pasang Chhiri Sherpa (22) aka Pasang Tshering Sherpa	Nepal	HGE
39	5/27/98	Tom Whittaker (50)	UK	Everest Challenge
40	5/27/98	Jeff Rhoads (44) the second time	US	Everest Challenge	First non-nepalese climber to summit two times in same season
41	5/27/98	Tashi Tshering Sherpa (28), the second time	Nepal	Everest Challenge	Two times, Six total
42	5/27/98	Lhakpa Tshering Sherpa (43)	Nepal	Everest Challenge	Third time
43	5/27/98	Dawa Sona aka Da Sonam Sherpa (31)	Nepal	Everest Challenge	Second Time
44	5/27/98	Norbu Sherpa (29)	Nepal	Everest Challenge	Fifth Time
45	5/27/98	Alan Silva	Australian		Living in Singapore

Autumn	Everest	98	Summits
46	10/15/98	Carlos Pitarch Francisco	Spain	Spanish Everest
47	10/17/98	Kaji Sherpa (33)***	Nepal	Tuborg Speed Everest	5th?

HKE = Himalayan Kingdoms Expeditions

HGE= Henry Todd's Himalayan Guides Expedition

*** Disputed.

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