Photos: From The Summit Day Rescues
Eric Simonson - Basecamp
Sun, May 27, 2001 3:30AM

If one picture tells the story, this is it:
Rescue Team below 2nd Step
Andy Politz took this shot as he approached the mushroom rock, about one hundred feet further ahead, by the fixed rope. Tap, Jason, and Andy Lapkass approach the mushroom rock, after completing the difficult traverse from the Second Step. Dave, Jaime, and Purba are at the base of the Second Step. Halfway up the Step waits a spanish speaking climber, on his descent from the summit, who tried to go around Dave and Jaime on the steepest part of the Second Step. Dave made him wait for him and Jaime to finish their descent of the Step, before he rapelled down and passed them. The other spanish speaking climber, also descending, is seen on the snow above the Third Step.

To the right are more of Andy Politz's photos from the rescue.

Eric Simonson, Expedition Leader

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Dave, Jaime, Purba approach the Mushroom Rock
Purba and Dave at the mushroom rock
Traverse to the First Step from mushroom rock
Tap Richards rapells the First Step
First Step to the Yellow Band
Dead climber has become a route marker