One day after the Khumbu Icefall and hence the Everest season reportedly closed, three members of the SummitClimb team are still stuck in Camp 2.
Team leader Dan Mazur has reported that a band of clouds at the top of the Khumbu Icefall has kept helicopters from landing at Camp 2, where the climbers — two Americans and one Sherpa — are waiting for an airlift.
“The team is ok, even if rations and fuel are growing thin…Praying for them,” Mazur wrote. Luckily, the well-acclimatized climbers should not need supplemental oxygen as long as they stay healthy. However, they have been at 7,000m and higher for a whole week.
BASE jumper in Kathmandu
Josh Bregmen, the fourth climber reportedly in Camp 2 yesterday, has said on social media that he is back in Base Camp. He did not explain when or how he made it back down, or why he is down while the other three climbers are still above the Icefall. Later, the UK man posted a picture of himself with other team members at a restaurant in Kathmandu.
Josh Bregmen, third from the left, in Kathmandu today. Photo: Project Unbreakable Everest 2026
Bregmen and his team shared no details about their planned BASE jump. They showed their climbing permit on social media, but it is unknown if they needed or had another permit to BASE jump and parachute back to Camp 2, as they had announced. Bregmen previously had problems with permits after a ski-BASE jump on Mera Peak in 2024.
The Sagarmatha Pollution Control Committee, in charge of fixing the route across the Khumbu Icefall, has not replied to our questions about the current state of the icefall. Local media reported the route was officially closed yesterday, but climbers who flew to Kathmandu today insist the Icefall is still open. The situation remains unclear.
