Cho Oyu | 2010 NW side

A Italy expedition to Cho Oyu in 2010 via NW side, led by Tamara Lunger. Summit reached on 2nd October 2010. 1 members recorded.

Expedition Details

Field Value
ID 6848
Imported 2026-03-06 18:04:49.359634
Expedition ID CHOY10317
Peak ID CHOY
Year 2010
Season 3
Host Country 2
Route 1 NW side
Route 2 -
Route 3 -
Route 4 -
Nationality Italy
Leaders Tamara Lunger
Sponsor Independent Italian on Cho Oyu
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 -
Approach -
Basecamp Date 2010-09-09
Summit Date 2010-10-02
Summit Time -
Summit Days 23
Total Days 37
Termination Date 2010-10-16
Termination Reason 4
Termination Notes Abandoned at 7550m due to cold winds
High Point (m) 7550
Traverse False
Ski False
Paraglide False
Camps 2
Fixed Rope (m) 0
Total Members 1
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 -
Campsites BC(09/09),ABC(13/09,5650m),C1(16/09,6320m),C2(21/09,6930m),xxx(02/10,7550m)
Route Notes Before tackling Cho Oyu, Ms. Lunger climbed an unnamed peak on the Tibet-Nepal border northwest of the Nangpa La; it is the first peak on the west side of the pass. Its altitude is given as 6192m on the Nepa Cho Oyu map; her altimeter showed 6118m. She climbed it easily on 25 September and skied down from its summit to about 5650m in five minutes at 11:45 am. On Cho Oyu, she left C2 for the summit alone at 11:00 pm (NST) on 1 October. She reached 7550m in cold and windy weather and turned around. She was back in C2 at 4:00 am, slept there for three hours, and descended to ABC. It was not until 12 October that she launched her second summit bid from ABC. On the 14th she went up from C2 with Santiago Quintero from Ecuador. At 7300m she stopped her ascent: Quintero's pace was too slow for her, but she didn't want to go on up alone. She returned to ABC that day and abandoned her climb. There was another reason for her decision to quit: "I had a bad feeling that this mountain is not my friend...I think you have to pay aatention to these feelings." She had been very upset about the death on Cho Oyu of a compatriot, Walter Nones, who fell to his death on 2 October while climbing on a different route from hers. (She had gone a few other climbers from ABC to help Nones' teammate bring the body down from where it lay.) On her last day at ABC, she tripped on a stone and pulled a ligament in her right ankle. (She will seek medical attention back in Italy, but was walking on it in Kathmandu without a limp).
Accidents -
Achievement -
Agency Asian Trekking
Commercial Route True
Standard Route True
Primary Route False
Primary Member False
Primary Reference False
Primary ID -
Checksum 2461037
Year 2010
Summit Success False
O2 Summary None
Route (lowercase) nw side

Members

1 recorded members.

Name Sex Year of Birth Citizenship Status Residence Occupation
Tamara Lunger F 1986 Italy Leader Gunner, Bozen, Italy Student Details Other expeditions

References

0 recorded references.