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| baumann_pat | Re: Normal Route | |
| Best summit report I've seen lately, HAHA! | |
| Posted Oct 13, 2009 8:44 am | ||
| sokolxxx | Next time Date Climbed: Sep 1, 2007 | |
| Bed weather was on this season. | |
| Posted Sep 16, 2009 5:31 pm | ||
| lefty | Standard Route Success  Date Climbed: Oct 5, 2008 | |
| Summited on a clear, windless day. A nice weeklong weather window opened on about October 1 and I made it to the top from Camp 3 in about six hours. | |
| Posted Oct 16, 2008 7:30 pm | ||
| radson | Bad Weather | |
| Turned around due to bad weather from Camp 2. Very dissapointed, especially as the weather cleared as we were packing up to leave. | |
| Posted Aug 20, 2008 5:13 am | ||
| Don Bowie | Polish Route | |
| Piotr Morawski and I attempted a variation of the upper SW face. We abandoned the climb at 7900m, though in retrospect it was a premature decision. (everythings' easier in retrospect) The next day Peter Hamor and Morawski summited via the standard route, while Piotr Pustelnik and I retreated at 7800m- my decision due to frozen toes. So much for bagging the easy 8Km peaks, but at least I can still count to 20 using the digit method. (Morawski can't) | |
| Posted Aug 22, 2007 3:11 am | ||
| Griffiths | Griffiths Date Climbed: Oct 1, 2006 | |
| Normal route - from camp 3. Poor weather this season, so took ages as everyone attempting same time. | |
| Posted May 31, 2007 10:05 am | ||
| snowflake | Normal Route Date Climbed: Oct 2, 2006 | |
| Summit from C3 in 5 hours, mostly stuck behind crowds. Hope it's OK that I used O2 although that is considered cheating nowadays. Just thought I might need the extra brain cells someday although so far no special occasion has showed up. | |
| Posted Oct 25, 2006 5:02 am | ||
| Arlberg | Arlberg Date Climbed: Oct 3, 2006 | |
| I summitted Cho Oyu on October 3, 2006 without using oxygen. After spending nearly 4 weeks climbing up and down Cho Oyu to acclimatise, and watching Tibetan refugees murdered by the Chinese Army right outside our camp, on the 3rd of October 2006 at 2.30am, and after a sleepless 8 hours 'rest', I set out from Camp 3, situated at 7560m, for the summit at 8201m with two members and two Sherpas, and only the light from our headtorches to show us the way. Within 3 hours both my water bottles had frozen solid, and it was only going to get colder as I moved upwards. At about 7900m the sun finally came up to my left, warmed my chilled body. Climbing without supplementary oxygen, I finally reached the summit plateau in almost perfect, but very cold conditions. On the summit plateau I met my climbing companions on their way down from the summit.... they had been climbing with oxygen. As I made my way across the summit plateau I knew that in a few moments my life would never be the same again. 30 minutes later, at around midday, there was suddenly no higher to go, and I was standing on the true summit of the sixth highest point on the planet. For a while I was totally alone as my Sherpa had previously succumbed to altitude sickness on the summit plateau and descended. I found out later as I stood there looking at the most splendid panorama imaginable, that I was in fact the highest person on the earth at that time. Less than 20 kilometres away to the East I could see Everest in all its glory, confirming that I was on the true summit of Cho Oyu. Standing right next to Everest, and looking very small, (although if it had been anywhere else outside of Nepal or Tibet it would easily have been the highest mountain in the world in its own right), was Pumori 7167m, on which I had stood within 200m of the summit just 6 months earlier before aborting the summit attempt to rescue two injured sherpas after an accident on the icewall. There was a team on Everest, but in in the lower camps, and no other expeditions at that time on K2 8611m, Kanchenjanga 8586m, Lhotse 8516m or Makalu 8463m. I took a short video and luckily, just as I was leaving, two other climbers arrived and I was able to hand them my camera and pose for a summit photo before descending. Philip Ling | |
| Posted Oct 22, 2006 10:43 am | ||
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| Corax | Re: Normal route | |
| Congratulations! | |
| Posted Oct 18, 2006 3:07 pm | ||
| Samuli Mansikka | Normal route Date Climbed: Oct 2, 2006 | |
| Summitted from Camp III on October 3rd 2006 without using supplementary oxygen. Photos and video clips will soon be added to www.samulimansikka.com. | |
| Posted Oct 18, 2006 2:52 pm | ||
| AlexGAVAN | Alex GAVAN Date Climbed: Oct 2, 2006 | |
| summited from camp 2, normal route, no oxigen, no sherpa, www.cloudclimbing.ro for expedition dispathches | |
| Posted Oct 13, 2006 8:55 pm | ||
| Martin McGarvey | Martin McGarvey Date Climbed: Oct 1, 2005 | |
| Summitted from Tibet by Normal Route from Camp 2. Great Mountain and great trip. | |
| Posted Oct 8, 2006 11:25 am | ||
| Sweetswede | Route Climbed: SW (Normal) route Date Climbed: 25th September 2005 | |
| Guided climb. The best thing I have ever done. So far i.e... | |
| Posted Jan 10, 2006 4:21 pm | ||
| jvdm | Route Climbed: Normal Date Climbed: 22sept2005 | |
| Summited on 22sept2005, 12:10 pm. We left camp three(7400m) at seven. With the fixed ropes, the rock band was not a problem at all. Some snow showers on the summit plateau and no clear views. We spent only three minutes on top before descending to camp II at 7100m. Jan van der Meer, Almere, Netherlands. www.mountainpassion.net | |
| Posted Dec 11, 2005 2:59 pm | ||
| mountaineer17 | Route Climbed: Normal Route Date Climbed: September 26, 2004 | |
| Made it from Camp III to the summit in 3 hours (arriving at 4:30am, the first one on the summit that day) and waited on the summit for 70 minutes for the sun to hit Everest and the rest of the himalayas before descending to ABC that day. LONG DAY | |
| Posted May 23, 2005 8:03 pm | ||
| tetontom | Route Climbed: Normal Date Climbed: 26 September 2004 | |
| Amazing warm, calm morning. 7AM and alone on the top for 10 minutes waiting to film my group. Best 10 minutes of my life! | |
| Posted Oct 22, 2004 2:25 am | ||
| Alan Arnette | Route Climbed: standard Date Climbed: September, 1998 | |
| Made it to the summit plateau 26,600 but fatigue, earlier delays and closing weather forced us to return. Read about the climb at www.alanarnette.com | |
| Posted Jul 29, 2001 12:57 pm | ||
| jcoughlin | Route Climbed: West face Date Climbed: 9/22/00 | |
| It took three tries, but it was worth it. | ||
| Posted Jul 3, 2001 9:56 am | ||
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