American mountaineer Robert Alt shares his firsthand perspective as he relishes a front-row seat to observe the inaugural use and impact of drones on Everest for the 2025 climbing season.

Robert Alt extends thanks to those who generously enabled his blogging and to the people who have served as examples in his personal life, professional career, and hobby sport.

Robert Alt contends with summit fever on Lobuche, accepts wise counsel from a fictional knight circa 1597, and doubles down on his singlemindedness with his sights unalterably set on Everest, 2025.