Cho Oyu | 2002 NW side

A Russia expedition to Cho Oyu in 2002 via NW side, led by Andrei Volkov. Summit reached on 5th May 2002. 3 members recorded.

Expedition Details

Field Value
ID 3992
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Expedition ID CHOY02102
Peak ID CHOY
Year 2002
Season 1
Host Country 2
Route 1 NW side
Route 2 -
Route 3 -
Route 4 -
Nationality Russia
Leaders Andrei Volkov
Sponsor Cho Oyu 2002
Success 1 True
Success 2 False
Success 3 False
Success 4 False
Ascent 1 436
Ascent 2 -
Ascent 3 -
Ascent 4 -
Claimed False
Disputed False
Countries -
Approach -
Basecamp Date 2002-04-13
Summit Date 2002-05-05
Summit Time 1045
Summit Days 22
Total Days 26
Termination Date 2002-05-09
Termination Reason 1
Termination Notes -
High Point (m) 8188
Traverse False
Ski False
Paraglide False
Camps 3
Fixed Rope (m) 0
Total Members 3
Summit Members 2
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(13/04,5300m),ABC(15/04,5700m),C1(18/04,6400m),C2(22/04,7100m),Smt(05/05)
Route Notes BC at CBC C1 at usual place C2 at usual place. May 05 Doucharine and Volkov left C2 at 02:30 hrs (Chinese Time); summit at 13:00 hours (10:45 NST), spent about 45 minutes, returned to C2 at 17:00 hours. Nice weather. Volkov said he saw both Nepal and Tibet side clearly. Everest could not be seen due to clouds on that side. On that day other expeditions reaching summit were one Korean with Sherpa, Spanish before him. The storm on 25 Apr blew away their tent at C2 and lost everything in it except three ice axes pegged to tent. Most of the climbing gear was borrowed from other expeditions. The gloves used by Volkov were borrowed from G. Goeschl (Amical-Austrian), who too had borrowed them from the Swiss climber Rupert (these gloves summited three times). The expedition team arrived KTM on 11 May and plan to leave on 14.
Accidents -
Achievement -
Agency Royal Mountain Travel
Commercial Route True
Standard Route True
Primary Route False
Primary Member False
Primary Reference -
Primary ID -
Checksum 2457732
Year 2002
Summit Success True
O2 Summary None
Route (lowercase) nw side

Members

3 recorded members.

Name Sex Year of Birth Citizenship Status Residence Occupation
Ivan T. Dusharin M 1947 Russia Climber Togliatti, Russia Engineer Details Other expeditions
Yuri Taidakov M 1955 Russia Climber Syzran, Russia Business manager Details Other expeditions
Andrei Volkov M 1960 Russia Leader Togliatti, Russia Director of business administration academy Details Other expeditions

References

1 recorded references.

Expedition ID Journal Author Title Publisher Citation Yak 94
CHOY02102 - - http://www.taom.ru/alpine/chooyu2002/eng_summ.html - - -