Cho Oyu | 2000 NW side

A Czech Republic expedition to Cho Oyu in 2000 via NW side, led by Robin Baum. Summit reached on 2nd October 2000. 10 members recorded.

Expedition Details

Field Value
ID 3702
Imported 2026-03-06 18:04:49.359634
Expedition ID CHOY00318
Peak ID CHOY
Year 2000
Season 3
Host Country 2
Route 1 NW side
Route 2 -
Route 3 -
Route 4 -
Nationality Czech Republic
Leaders Robin Baum
Sponsor Cho Czech Expedition
Success 1 True
Success 2 False
Success 3 False
Success 4 False
Ascent 1 377,383
Ascent 2 -
Ascent 3 -
Ascent 4 -
Claimed False
Disputed False
Countries Canada, USA
Approach KTM->Tingri->BC
Basecamp Date 2000-09-12
Summit Date 2000-10-02
Summit Time 1630
Summit Days 20
Total Days 28
Termination Date 2000-10-10
Termination Reason 1
Termination Notes -
High Point (m) 8188
Traverse False
Ski True
Paraglide False
Camps 3
Fixed Rope (m) 0
Total Members 10
Summit Members 3
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 -
Campsites BC(12/09,4000m),ABC(14/09,5700m),C1(17/09,6400m),C2(21/09,7100m),C3(27/09,7500m),Smt(02,05/10)
Route Notes BC at Chinese BC C1 (all spent night) C2 Patek and Smrz spent night C3 Weingartl spent night. Oct 02 - Patek and Weingartl left C3 around 05:30. Patek alone summit at about 16:30 hours NST, back to C3. Weingartl reached up to shoulder (8000m about) and had to quit due to cold and a little frostbite. Oct 05 - Kalousek and Smrz left C3 around 07:00 hours, summit at about 17:00 hours, back to C3. Smrz skied down to C2, took about 1-1/2 hours. At yellow band and icefall used fixed rope to descend - took off skis. They said he is the first Czech to ski down on the 8000m mountain. Weingartl left BC on Oct 8 due to the work back home. Pokorny left BC on Sept 29; he went up to C3. The expedition team returned to KTM on the night of Oct 12; leaving Nepal on Oct 16. Source of above information Baum with Kalousak and others.
Accidents -
Achievement Skied down
Agency Everest Adventure
Commercial Route True
Standard Route True
Primary Route False
Primary Member False
Primary Reference False
Primary ID -
Checksum 2457105
Year 2000
Summit Success True
O2 Summary None
Route (lowercase) nw side

Members

10 recorded members.

Name Sex Year of Birth Citizenship Status Residence Occupation
Robin Baum M 1969 Czech Republic Leader Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic Surveying engineer Details Other expeditions
Libor Chrastil M 1960 Czech Republic Exp Doctor Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic Surgeon Details Other expeditions
Jan Kalousek M 1959 USA Climber New York, New York Furniture export-import business Details Other expeditions
Pavel Machovec M 1959 Czech Republic Climber Trebic, Czech Republic Aircraft engineer Details Other expeditions
Vaclav Patek M 1951 Czech Republic Climber Zlin, Moravia, Czech Republic Owner of shop selling rock-climbing shoes Details Other expeditions
Miroslav Pelc M 1950 Czech Republic Climber Napajedla, Czech Republic Roofing technician Details Other expeditions
Josef Peterek M 1952 Czech Republic Climber Marianske Lazne, Czech Republic Construction technician Details Other expeditions
Dusan Pokorny M 1948 Canada Climber Kingston, Ontario Electronics engineer Details Other expeditions
Vladimir Smrz M 1965 Czech Republic Climber Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic Roofing technician Details Other expeditions
Hana Marie Weingartl F 1957 Canada Climber Winnipeg, Manitoba Virologist with govt inspection agency Details Other expeditions

References

1 recorded references.

Expedition ID Journal Author Title Publisher Citation Yak 94
CHOY00318 - - http://berninasport.prodejce.cz/chooyu/expedice_chooyu2000.htm - - -