Mt. Everest 2005: The Finns "No fixed rope up high"

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Update: "Unfortunately Tomi and Arri of the Finnish team had to turn back before the summit. The Finnish team were told by the Himalayan Experience that all fixed ropes are in place but in fact for some reason there were no fixed lines high up. The two are now back in camp 2 and will continue their way down to abc tomorrow."

Previous Update

Note: This is UNCONFIRMED, but from a reliable source: Again this is totally unconfirmed! (very hard to confirm news right now!!)

Update: Tomi and Arri are  on their way back down near camp 2 after their summit attempt, but there is no news yet if the attempt was successful.

Update May 20th, 2005: 6.30 p.m. (Nepalese time) Two members of the Finnish team (Tomi and Arri) are at camp 3 (8300m). Tonight they will pack their packs and leave for the summit attempt at midnight.

The team who tries to reach the summit of Everest:

Arri Leino         32y Espoo/Finland          

Veli-Pekka Mölsä   42y Espoo/Finland    

Teijo Lehtinen     44y Varese, Italy

Arto Suolanen      33y Anjalankoski/Finland   

Tomi Myllys        32y Vantaa/Finland         

Tero Järvinen      31y Tuusula/Finland        

Heikki Karinen     40y Tampere/Finland        

Finland Everest 2005

Members:

They are all very experienced climbers, their route is from Tibet side on the north side. A lot of research work around high altitude illness will be done.

More coming soon!

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