Cho Oyu | 2011 NW side

A Canada expedition to Cho Oyu in 2011 via NW side, led by Gabriel Filippi. Summit reached on 12th May 2011. 6 members recorded.

Expedition Details

Field Value
ID 7059
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Expedition ID CHOY11111
Peak ID CHOY
Year 2011
Season 1
Host Country 2
Route 1 NW side
Route 2 -
Route 3 -
Route 4 -
Nationality Canada
Leaders Gabriel Filippi
Sponsor Canadian Nepal-Tibet Expedition
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 2011-05-03
Summit Date 2011-05-12
Summit Time -
Summit Days 9
Total Days 14
Termination Date 2011-05-17
Termination Reason 8
Termination Notes Abandoned at 7100m due to lack of strength and support due to wide-spread illness
High Point (m) 7400
Traverse False
Ski False
Paraglide False
Camps 2
Fixed Rope (m) 0
Total Members 4
Summit Members 0
Member Deaths 0
Total Hired 2
Summit Hired 0
Hired Deaths 0
No Hired False
O2 Used True
O2 None False
O2 Climb True
O2 Descent False
O2 Sleep False
O2 Medical False
O2 Taken False
O2 Unknown False
Other Summits -
Campsites BC(03/05,5000m),ABC(06/05,5700m),C1(08/05,6400m),C2(10/04,7200m),xxx(12/05,7400m)
Route Notes 19 May 2011 The team's efforts to get very high on the mountain collapsed in the face of health problems for Sherpas and members alike. In the end, there was no one left standing except Roy. The more experienced Sherpa, Thukten Dorji, never went above ABC, where he had developed a chest infection on 7 May. Their other and less experienced Sherpa, Ngima, got altitude sickness in C2 on the 13th. Gadbois had been taking a walk killing time while waiting for Ngima to join him that morning with oxygen and for them to go up to set up C3. When he learned that Ngima was sick, he gave up the idea of going higher. He tried to descend to C1, but had to stop at a Dutch team's tent in C1.5, which he knew would be empty, because of diarrhea, and now he was becoming aware of the frostbite in his fingers (they had become frostbitten on 10 May while he was climbing on his way from C1 to C2). Cousineau had gone up to C2 on 12 May using oxygen because she was too tired to reach the camp without it. She made no attempt to go higher. That left Roy the only climber to try to go above C2 (Filippi, the leader, never went above BC). Roy ascended 200 meters, then he also abandoned the attempt, and the climb was over. All were back in ABC by the 15th. Sherpas: Ngima Sherpa, 8/5/86, Taksindu-9, Solu, no 8000ers Thukten Dorji Sherpa, 21/6/71, Thamo, Khumbu, no 8000ers
Accidents -
Achievement -
Agency Mountain Tribes Trekking
Commercial Route True
Standard Route True
Primary Route False
Primary Member False
Primary Reference False
Primary ID -
Checksum 2461305
Year 2011
Summit Success False
O2 Summary Used
Route (lowercase) nw side

Members

6 recorded members.

Name Sex Year of Birth Citizenship Status Residence Occupation
Sylvie Cousineau F 1966 Canada Climber St. Eustache, Quebec Anesthesiologist Details Other expeditions
Gabriel Filippi M 1960 Canada Leader Verdun, Quebec Motivational speaker Details Other expeditions
Albert Gadbois M 1950 Canada Climber Candiac, Quebec Retired financial consultant Details Other expeditions
Jean-Philippe Roy M 1974 Canada Climber Granby, Quebec Engineer Details Other expeditions
Thukten Dorji Sherpa M 1971 Nepal H-A Worker Thamo, Khumbu - Details Other expeditions
Ngima Sherpa M 1986 Nepal H-A Worker Taksindu-3, Solukhumbu - Details Other expeditions

References

0 recorded references.