Ama Dablam | 2014 N Ridge

A New Zealand expedition to Ama Dablam in 2014 via N Ridge, led by Russell Brice. Summit reached on 2nd November 2014. 10 members recorded.

Expedition Details

Field Value
ID 8605
Imported 2026-03-06 18:04:49.359634
Expedition ID AMAD14319
Peak ID AMAD
Year 2014
Season 3
Host Country 1
Route 1 N Ridge
Route 2 -
Route 3 -
Route 4 -
Nationality New Zealand
Leaders Russell Brice
Sponsor Himalayan Experience (Himex) Ama Dablam 2014
Success 1 False
Success 2 False
Success 3 False
Success 4 False
Ascent 1 -
Ascent 2 -
Ascent 3 -
Ascent 4 -
Claimed False
Disputed False
Countries Germany, Japan
Approach -
Basecamp Date 2014-10-13
Summit Date 2014-11-02
Summit Time -
Summit Days 20
Total Days 22
Termination Date 2014-11-04
Termination Reason 5
Termination Notes Abandoned at 6500m due to dangerous avalanching
High Point (m) 6500
Traverse False
Ski False
Paraglide False
Camps 1
Fixed Rope (m) 4000
Total Members 6
Summit Members 0
Member Deaths 0
Total Hired 4
Summit Hired 0
Hired Deaths 0
No Hired False
O2 Used False
O2 None True
O2 Climb False
O2 Descent False
O2 Sleep False
O2 Medical False
O2 Taken False
O2 Unknown False
Other Summits Summited Island Peak
Campsites BC(13/10,4800m),C1(22/10,6100m),xxx(02/11,6500m)
Route Notes The North Ridge of Ama Dablam is technically difficult and exposed to avalanching, as this team discovered. It was very different from the North Ridge route Brice had scaled in autumn of 1980. He found it was now not suitable for commercial expeditions: he said that it is "too hard and too dangerous to go on that route for commercial climbs," he said. Before he realized the hazards for commercial teams, Brice organized this climb of the North Ridge. First, they went to Island Peak in two groups for acclimatization, and all summited it before occupying their Ama Dablam BC on 13 October. C1 at 6100m was not occupied until nine days later, on 22 October, because of the route's technical difficulty. No C2 was established because there was "no space to put it." The ridge was too narrow for a thousand feet. Therefore climbers would have to go for the top from C1, too far away. The climb was called off when they came to a place where the snow cover was waist-deep on a slope that had become 40-degrees steep, and just beyond that they would have to traverse an area of a 50-degree slope below a hanging glacier falling off the East Face, plus there were many crevasses which forced one to go over onto the West Face. The team's highest point was reached by four Sherpas at 6500m on 2 November; the two assistant leaders, Tamura and Woodward, got as high as 6300m on 30 October, but none of the clients reached that height (the two assistant leaders had been working with the Sherpas fixing the route). The climb was abandoned on 2 November: the overriding reason was the danger posed by avalanching. The team returned to Kathmandu by helicopter from Phortse on the 5th. Sherpas: Ngawang Tenzing, 20/11/69, Phortse Nima Tenzing, 20/4/91, Phortse Phurba Tashi, 24/5/71, Khumjung Urken Lendup, 10/2/93, Phortse
Accidents -
Achievement -
Agency Mountain Experience
Commercial Route False
Standard Route False
Primary Route False
Primary Member False
Primary Reference False
Primary ID -
Checksum 2461768
Year 2014
Summit Success False
O2 Summary None
Route (lowercase) n ridge

Members

10 recorded members.

Name Sex Year of Birth Citizenship Status Residence Occupation
Kumiko Asahida M 1954 Japan Climber Shingei-haitsu, Hokkaido, Japan Sports shop salesman Details Other expeditions
Russell Reginald Brice M 1952 New Zealand Leader London, England Alpine guide Details Other expeditions
Rochelle Tracy Rafferty F 1970 New Zealand Climber Arthur's Pass, New Zealand Adventurer Details Other expeditions
Nina Ribbat F 1982 Germany Climber Marenbra, NSW, Australia Student Details Other expeditions
Shinji Tamura M 1966 Japan Assistant Leader Zermatt, Valais, Switzerland Alpine guide Details Other expeditions
Mark Wynton Woodward M 1963 New Zealand Assistant Leader Queenstown, New Zealand Alpine guide Details Other expeditions
Ngawang Tenjing (Nawang Tenzing) Sherpa M 1993 Nepal H-A Worker Phortse, Khumbu - Details Other expeditions
Nima Tenzing (Ngima Tenjing) Sherpa M 1991 Nepal H-A Worker Phortse, Khumbu - Details Other expeditions
Phurba Tashi Sherpa M 1971 Nepal H-A Worker Khumjung, Khumbu - Details Other expeditions
Urken Lendu (Urgen Tenzing) Sherpa M 1993 Nepal H-A Worker Phortse, Khumbu - Details Other expeditions

References

1 recorded references.

Expedition ID Journal Author Title Publisher Citation Yak 94
AMAD14319 - - http://himalayanexperience.com/newsletters/ama-dablam-2014 - - -