Cho Oyu (Nepali: चोयु; Tibetan: ཇོ་བོ་དབུ་ཡ; Chinese: 卓奥友峰) is the sixth-highest mountain in the world at 8,188 metres (26,864 ft) above sea level. Cho...
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twice, which he did from 2006 to 2022. Issues with false summits (e.g. Cho Oyu, Annapurna I and Dhaulagiri), or separated dual summits (e.g. Shishapangma...
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although several others tried to help him. Sharp had previously summited Cho Oyu and was noted as being a talented rock climber who seemed to acclimatise...
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Alan Hinkes (section Cho Oyu dispute)
His 30 April 1990 ascent of Cho Oyu, which he completed alone in low visibility, is disputed by one observer. Cho Oyu has a broadly flat summit plateau...
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List of deaths on eight-thousanders (section Cho Oyu)
had been 800 successful summits of Makalu and 50 deaths on the mountain. Cho Oyu is the world's sixth-highest mountain at 8,188 meters (26,864 ft) above...
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Carla Pérez (section Cho Oyu)
without supplemental oxygen. In 2014, Pérez completed a solo ascent of Cho Oyu without supplemental oxygen. In 2015, Pérez reached the summit of Broad...
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Nangpa La between Rolwaling Himal and Cho Oyu, to the Arun River. It includes Mount Everest, Lhotse, Makalu, and Cho Oyu — four of Earth's six highest peaks...
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expedition to the mountain in 1951 as well as an unsuccessful attempt to climb Cho Oyu in 1952. As part of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition he reached...
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skiing and holds the record for the highest ski descent which he made down Cho Oyu mountain. Stammberger disappeared while scouting an expedition of Tirich...
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The 1952 British expedition to Cho Oyu (26,750 feet (8,150 m)) the Turquoise Goddess was organized by the Joint Himalayan Committee. It had been hoped...
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Reinhold Messner (section Cho Oyu)
In the winter of 1982–83, Messner attempted the first winter ascent of Cho Oyu. He reached an altitude of about 7,500 m (24,600 feet), when great masses...
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Klára Poláčková (section Cho Oyu)
Club in London. On 9 March 2006, Klára Poláčková reached the summit of Cho Oyu, climbing with her guide and friend Tashi Tenzing. Klára Poláčková summited...
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and the first woman to ski from over 8000 meters, skiing off the top of Cho Oyu on a monoski. 2000: Davo Karničar† (Slovenia) completed the first top-to-bottom...
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kilometres to the west of Everest. Cho Oyu is Tibetan and means ‘Turquoise Goddess’. The first people to climb Cho Oyu were on 19 October 1954 the Austrians...
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Lhotse, the third-highest mountain of the Himalaya Makalu in the Himalaya Cho Oyu in the Himalaya Dhaulagiri in the Himalaya Manaslu in the Himalaya Nanga...
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Arnold) 1994 – Mount Everest 1994 – Lhotse 1994 – K2 1994 – Cho Oyu 1994 – Makalu 1995 – Cho Oyu 1996 – Mount Everest (died on descent) List of 20th-century...
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a government panel recommended that two mountains on the ridge between Cho Oyu and Gyachung Kang be called Hillary Peak and Tenzing Peak as part of a...
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Kalam. Arjun Vajpai scaled Cho Oyu accompanied by Pasang Norbu Sherpa and Lakpa Sherpa. During one of his attempts at Mount Cho Oyu, Tibet (the easiest 8,000...
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Claude Kogan (category Deaths on Cho Oyu)
she died in October 1959 while leading a women-only expedition to climb Cho Oyu, the sixth-highest mountain in the world, on the China Tibet–Nepal Province...
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000m summits, reaching the summit of Everest 9 times, Manaslu 4 times, Cho Oyu 3 times, and both K2 and Lhotse once. He has also led three expeditions...
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Alex Staniforth (section Cho Oyu)
2016, Staniforth attempted to climb the world's sixth highest mountain Cho Oyu which stands at over 8,000 meters, in preparation for another attempt on...
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Tichy made the first ascent of Cho Oyu on 19 October 1954. Tichy documented the climb in his book Cho Oyu, Cho Oyu: By Favour Of The Gods, published...
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major Himalayan peaks. These include 21 ascents of Mount Everest, six on Cho Oyu, eight on Manaslu, and one each on Shishapangma[citation needed] and Lhotse...
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Kyrgyzstan (7134 m), Muztagh Ata (7546 m) and Kuksay Peak (7134 m) in China and Cho Oyu in Tibet (8201 m). Tomas Olsson lived in Chamonix in France, where he worked...
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peak in a record time of 10 days. In 1989, Kropp had hopes of climbing Cho Oyu, but he had no permit. Instead, he went to South America and climbed Iliniza...
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(13,120 ft). Such is its vertical relief that despite being closer to Cho Oyu and Mount Everest, it is the only one of the Nepali eight-thousanders whose...
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Dhaulagiri (in 1995), Mount Everest (1997), Makalu (1998), and Shishapangma and Cho Oyu (1999). President of Alpine Club Vihren, Sofia. Participant in the Bulgarian...
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called the Siwaliks or Churiya Hills. Everest Kangchenjunga Lhotse Makalu Cho Oyu Dhaulagiri I Manaslu Annapurna I Gyachung Kang Wikimedia Commons has media...
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missing. However, when the Chinese authorities refused her permits to climb Cho Oyu and Shishapangma, her record hunt ended at that point. On 3 May 2023, Harila...
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that nearly succeeded; the 1952 British Cho Oyu expedition practised high-altitude Himalayan techniques on Cho Oyu, nearby to the west. During the 1930s...
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