Chobuje | 2019 NE Face-NE Ridge

A Cyprus expedition to Chobuje in 2019 via NE Face-NE Ridge, led by Kyriakos Rossidis. Summit reached on 8th May 2019. 2 members recorded.

Expedition Details

Field Value
ID 10163
Imported 2026-03-06 18:04:49.359634
Expedition ID CHOB19101
Peak ID CHOB
Year 2019
Season 1
Host Country 1
Route 1 NE Face-NE Ridge
Route 2 -
Route 3 -
Route 4 -
Nationality Cyprus
Leaders Kyriakos Rossidis
Sponsor Nepal Social Treks Chobuje Expedition 2019
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 Romania
Approach Chechet->Simigaon->Beding->Na (BC in Na village)
Basecamp Date 2019-04-21
Summit Date 2019-05-08
Summit Time -
Summit Days 17
Total Days 20
Termination Date 2019-05-11
Termination Reason 10
Termination Notes Abandoned at 5965m due to not finding a safe place for a bivouac, tiredness and very strong wind
High Point (m) 5965
Traverse False
Ski False
Paraglide False
Camps 1
Fixed Rope (m) 0
Total Members 2
Summit Members 0
Member Deaths 0
Total Hired 0
Summit Hired 0
Hired Deaths 0
No Hired True
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 Attempted Chekigo (to 5800m on S Face)
Campsites BC(21/04,4150mm),ABC(5000m),Biv1(07/05,5627m),xxx(08/05,5965m)
Route Notes We started the climb for the NE Face of Chobutse Peak on Tuesday 7th May 2019, from our Advanced Base Camp (if it can be called this way) on the right side moraine (geographically) of Ripimo Glacier, at an altitute of aproximately 5000m. We found a place to traverse the unstable slopes of the glacier and we started towards the base of the NE at around 1:30 am. After aproximately 2 hours we reached the base and started to simul solo on easy terrain up the first part of the face. We encountered the first difficulties quite low, on a rockband. We roped up there and climbed technical terrain (around M5 max) for 4 pitches. Then we simul-climbed a long snowfield. The morning sun started to melt the snow and the conditions got a bit dangerous because of falling snow and rocks. We found a suitable place for a bivouac and set our First Light tent at around 1 pm. We rested the all day waiting for the shade or the dark to set in. The next morning we wanted to start at 2 am, but the strong wind and spindrifts made it very difficult to cook and pack the tent. We started at 4:30 am on mixed terrain. We climbed 2 long pitches until we encountered hard, technical climbing again. There was no solid ice formed on the slabs so we had to climb mixed ground, in some places hard to protect (maybe around M6 or a bit more...but hard to tell...it was more delicate than physical). In between the technical rock bands we had easy ice. We then traversed left a few ice runnels and reached a snow slope with rotten snow. We climbed for 3 more pitches on the snow to reach a narrow ridge. At the end of the ridge (arround 5950m) we tried to find shelter or a bivouac place because the wind was getting quite strong and we were getting tired. We couldn't dig a platform because the ice was too thin and there was rock slabs underneath. Kyriakos climbed 40m higher and tried to find a place for a bivouac under an overhang, but the place was very unstable. Above us the terrain looked easier than before, but with long icy slopes that looked very physical. The next possible bivouac was probably on the N Ridge, exposed to wind and 300m higher. We decided that it was quite far for us to reach on that day so we started rappelling on a couloir facing east. Not finding any bivouac place lower, we kept on rapelling until the base of the couloir, then traversed over a hanging glacier (exposed terrain) and continued down climbing and rapelling until 1 am in the night. We then reached the base of the NE Face again and set our tent outside of objective dangers. The next day we continued our way down the Ripimo Glacier and back to Na village (our base camp). Chekigo attempt: We wanted to try to acclimatize on Chekigo peak because it was very close to Na village and our base camp. We had some pictures with previus attempt lines and routes on the S Face, but we managed to spot a virgin line in the middle of the face. It looked hard technically, but it looked challenging to us. We started from a bivouac under a big rock that protected us from potential ice fall from the big serac on the right side of the face. We climbed technical terrain at the base of the face and during the day we end up in a melting snowfield. It was very hard progress in the melting snow. We climbed very light, no bivouac gear, no tent. We only had water and some energy gels and some energy bars. We decided to abseil and go down (at 5800m) when we noticed that the climb would take us longer than we predicted.
Accidents -
Achievement -
Agency Nepal Social Treks
Commercial Route False
Standard Route False
Primary Route False
Primary Member False
Primary Reference False
Primary ID -
Checksum 2463871
Year 2019
Summit Success False
O2 Summary None
Route (lowercase) ne face-ne ridge

Members

2 recorded members.

Name Sex Year of Birth Citizenship Status Residence Occupation
Kyriakos Rossidis M 1991 Cyprus Leader Lemesos, Cyprus Alpine guide Details Other expeditions
Mihnea Radu Prundeanu M 1985 Romania Climber Cluj Napoca, Romania Alpine guide Details Other expeditions

References

0 recorded references.