Jane Kanizay and daughter Gabby, the latter at 19 the youngest Australian to reach the summit of Everest, stood on top of the world at sunrise a year ago. They took off their oxygen masks. First, they hugged their Sherpas. Then they hugged each other.
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Their experience no less exhilarating than whenThings have changed. In some ways, the climb got easier. There’s a rope to hold on to all the way up. The equipment is more sophisticated. But queues at peak times mean climbers are spending more time above what is known as “the death zone”, that’s above 8000 metres, where the body is deprived of oxygen because the air has a third of the oxygen than at sea level.
Kanizay, a Melbourne mother of four, is an educator of dyslexic children. She made numerous preparation climbs at high altitude with Gabby in advance of their mother-daughter trip, which was organised by climbing service operator Climbing the Seven Summits.They did the two-week walk to base camp taking in a 6000 metre peak en route to acclimatise. There were 15 in their group of eight women and seven men intending to reach the summit and the mother and daughter had their own Sherpa.
The worst experience, she says, was going back down passing so many climbers on their way up despite it being a “quiet season” with a little over 300 permits issued for the year. Kanizay says they were carrying high-altitude medications but in the event of problems, the most effective treatment is to descend as quickly as possible. At camp four descending, she suffered some hallucinations through the night.Of her group she says: “I think there were some people underqualified to be there. One thing you have to consider when you are climbing is that it isn’t just your own life.
“I take my hat off to every single person who has climbed Everest but, surely, it is time to limit the numbers. Not just to pay respect to a sacred place but to limit the risks of being above 8000 metres where time and efficiency of movement are the secret tools of survival. It’s like standing on a railway line with an approaching train and not being able to move because of a crowd in front of you and behind you. That’s silly.
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