Posté en tant qu’invité par Diego:
From Simone Moro :
We met Dawa, the liason officer and Nawang, who was the liason officer for JC Lafaille. He told us that the French alpinist had arrived in Tibet on the 11th of November.
A few days ago, before returning to Nepal, he gave Lafaille the certificate which proves his climb to the peak at 14:00 on December 11th, but he did not write « WINTER EXPEDITION » even though the Frenchman insisted he write it because he didn’t consider it a winter climb. Nawang says that he has 10 years of expedition experience in all 4 seasons and Lafaille’s climb was not to be registered with the TMA as a « WINTER EXPEDITION » but as « LATE AUTUMN. » Anyone can contact Nawang at the TMA in order to confirm this.
The French alpinist got his Chinese Visa extended because he only intended to stay 30 days and as he entered Tibet and started the expedition before December 1st, he acted with the normal autumn permission. With all this news and clarification, added to the scientific one of the world season calendar which says that winter starts the 21st of December, we must consider that Shisha Pangma has never been conquered in winter. Now it’s up to us to see if this climb is possible…
Bye, Simone