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The Japanese climber has also revealed that a commercial team hopes to summit the south side of Cho Oyu via the difficult South Face. They will likely attempt the SSW Ridge, which has never been ...

Cho Oyu and the south-east face. The red line marks the planned line of ascent which according to www.russianclimb.com was followed almost entirely by Urubko and Dedeshko. Denis Urubko has done it! On ...

Too cold, too tired, too dangerous: The Russian team was unable to cross the huge gap on the tricky East Ridge that separated them from the summit of Cho Oyu. In the end, after weeks of work ...

and Cho Oyu to the west. On a clear day, it seems as if one can see across half a continent. 150 feet below the summit, climbers heading down often collect small rocks as mementos of their climb.

Walter Nones has died on Cho Oyu (8201m), the sixth highest mountain in the world ... found themselves in difficulty. On that day he reached the summit along with Mondinelli, Unterkircher, Compagnoni ...

The Russians have finished the South Face of Cho Oyu and are now on the summit ridge. The top is now close, but a major obstacle remains to pass. The team launched its final summit push a week ago.

Gaining a summit - even the loftiest summit in the ... Dr Griffith Pugh was the expedition's physiologist, and his preparatory work on Cho Oyu the year before had been instrumental in the planning ...

"As I approached the summit and saw the rosy light on the snow, I found peace and a release from my inner turmoil," she ...

Dehradun: Twenty-nine year old Sheetal Raj from Pithoragarh district has scripted history by becoming the first woman from India to scale Mount Cho Oyu, the sixth-highest mountain in the world.