Cho Oyu ( 8201m.) Expedition |
Cho Oyu is the world's sixth highest mountain at 8201 m (26,901 feet), and lies 28 km west of Mt. Everest on the Tibetan plateau. The peak itself straddles the Nepal Tibet border, and the peak can be approached on its south side from the Thame valley of the Khumbu region of Nepal leading up to the Lungsampa Glacier. Cho Oyu has three main ridges: the Northwest, the Northeast, and the Southwest.
Cho Oyu's impressive Southwest face, that rises up three kilometers high from the Lungsampa Glacier, drew the attention of the first expedition to the Everest Himal organized by the British in 1921. Three decades would pass before it was first attempted, in 1952, by an expedition led by Eric Shipton. They were turned back at 6650 m (22,500') by the ice cliff on the Northwest ridge that proved to be beyond their technical limits. (AAJ 27 1953, p.581). Cho Oyu was successfully climbed two years later in the post-monsoon season of 1954 via the Northwest ridge by Austrians Herbert Tichy , Sepp Johler and Sherpa Passang Dawa Lama, who led the ice cliff that Shipton had described as "obviously impassible." (AAJ 29 1955, p. 178) . That same year, Cho Oyu was attempted by a French expedition that included Mme. Claude Kogan, and although they were turned back at 7600 m (25,000'), her altitude record for women lasted many years. From the north, the peak is approached from the Tingri Plain, to the Palung Glacier that lies below the peak's north face, and the Gyabrag Glacier that surrounds the Northwest face. |
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Trekking Itinerary: |
Day 01: Arrival Kathmandu 1350m.
Day 02: Kathmandu
Day 03: Kathmandu
Day 04: Drive to Kodari & transfer Zhangmu 2300m
Day 05: Drive Nylam 2750m.
Day 06: Nylam rest for acclimatization
Day 07: Drive Tingri 4340m.
Day 08: Rest of day for acclimatized
Day 09: Drive to Chinese Base Camp 5,000m. Camping
Day 10: Chinese Base Camp
Day 11: Prepared load to Yak for Advance Base Camp. Camping
Day 12: Base Camp - Middle camp with Yaks
Day 13: Middle Camp - Cho Oyu Advance Base Camp
Day 14-43: Climbing Period for Cho Oyu 8201m.
Day 44: Advance Base camp - Chinese Base camp
Day 45: Base Camp - Drive to Tingri and Zhangmu
Day 46: Drive Zhangmu - Kathmandu
Day 47: Kathmandu
Day 48: Final Departure
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