In an online despatch, he said that after the team set 31 July as their date for the summit bid, spirits were high.

Climbers typically only have a maximum of two or three days that they can endure at this altitude for making summit bids.

Most climbers will begin using supplemental oxygen here and have a maximum of only two or three days for making summit bids.

There won't be any summit bid.

He made no provisions for Sherpa or guide support for his summit bid.

During the 1921 expedition they had seen that the best time for a summit bid would be April-May before the monsoon season.

Hall was pivotal in the successful summit bid by Macartney-Snape.

Eventually camp was pitched on the glacier, 36 hours after the start of the summit bid.

My own ambition is to get to the top camp from where we launch the summit bid.

During the Slovenians' summit bid, a violent storm arose and stranded them at high altitude.