Having left BC for Makalu (8463m) summit bid Jean-Christophe Lafaille has not got into communications for 72 hours.
"I asked for a recognition in the helicopter and also with a small plane, the helicopter which cannot go up beyond a certain altitude", - said Katya Lafaille, his wife and manager. The helicopter should also land near base camp to revise information at a cook and two porters stayed there.
Early the relatives of the mountaineer did not communicate with the base camp and talked directly to Jean-Christophe as he had a satellite phone. The last communication was on January 26: Lafaille was at 7600 meters and was going to reach the top the next day, on Friday, January 27. They planned to make the next communication the same day at the end of this attempt. But there wasn't any good news since then...