American Chad Kellogg, hoping to set a speed record for climbing Everest without bottled oxygen by the standard route from Nepal, turned back just below the Balcony on May 23, about 500 to 600 meters below the summit, because of high winds. Kellogg climbed from base camp to the Balcony (an ascent of nearly 3,000 meters) in about 19 hours.

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