Adventure in 60 Seconds: This Week in Exploration

Mount Everest had its first summit of 2010 this week, as reported by explorersweb.com. As usual, it was the Sherpa who, as part of their nine to five, passed out while fixing ropes to help others. While most teams are waiting for the weather to clear next week, a few in the Peak Freaks team have gone ahead, and touched the roof of the world. (Explorersweb.com)

In the bottom up, a controversy is brewing slowly surrounding the death of Tolo Calafat Spanish climber who died on Annapurna on 29 April. Some of his colleagues claim that a Korean team cut the ropes that Calafat and his crew had set out to help her down and then refused to send their sherpas to help, despite being offered money by the Spanish Juanito Oiarzabal . Although Koreans have been plausible, but difficult to verify excuses, the incident, along with the controversy surrounding the disputed title Oh Eun-Sun as the first woman to climb all the summits of 8,000 meters, has created a lot of bad blood between the two mountain-loving nations.