Cho Oyu | 2019 NW side

A Spain expedition to Cho Oyu in 2019 via NW side, led by David Hernandez Pujol. Summit reached on 25th September 2019. 10 members recorded.

Expedition Details

Field Value
ID 10395
Imported 2026-03-06 18:04:49.359634
Expedition ID CHOY19305
Peak ID CHOY
Year 2019
Season 3
Host Country 2
Route 1 NW side
Route 2 -
Route 3 -
Route 4 -
Nationality Spain
Leaders David Hernandez Pujol
Sponsor Climbalaya Cho Oyu Expedition 2019
Success 1 True
Success 2 False
Success 3 False
Success 4 False
Ascent 1 -
Ascent 2 -
Ascent 3 -
Ascent 4 -
Claimed False
Disputed False
Countries France, Germany, Mexico, Taiwan
Approach By flight to Lhasa->Tingri->ABC
Basecamp Date 2019-09-13
Summit Date 2019-09-25
Summit Time 0920
Summit Days 12
Total Days 0
Termination Date -
Termination Reason 1
Termination Notes -
High Point (m) 8188
Traverse False
Ski True
Paraglide False
Camps 2
Fixed Rope (m) 0
Total Members 6
Summit Members 4
Member Deaths 0
Total Hired 6
Summit Hired 4
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 ABC(13/09,5700m),C1(17/09,6400m),C2(20/09,7140m),Smt(25/09)
Route Notes David Hernandez Pujol and Hector Velasco report: ABC 13/09 5700m C1 17/09 6400m C2 20/09 7140m Smt 25/09 by Pujol following just after Magnin (maybe 10 mins) at 9:30 am (NST). Smt 25/09 by Velascon at 10 am. Summit team left C2 25 Sept between 1 and 1:30 am. Conditions: snowing, not clear visibility. Snowing in the mist/cloud. After summiting, went straight down to C1 (rested in C2 a little bit), arrived C1 at 5 pm. Stayed the night there. Headed to ABC at 11 am on 26th Sept. Oxygen: Magnin and Velasco used, Pujol none. Sherpas: Pemba Sherpa, Thame Chirring Wangchu Sherpa, Thame Ngima Nuru Sherpa, Khumbu (smt EVER 22 times) Felix Prokop report: Smt 25/09 by Prokop and Sherpa at 10:30 (NST). 25 Sept: Second night at C2 at 7140m started for summit push at 2:12 am. Conditions: -8 degrees in the tent. Clear, but snow crystals falling, very dark. 15cm of fresh snow at the camp. Once you left the track, you sunk in. Stayed like this for about 45 mins until you could see the a part of the moon on the summit and stars. By sunrise was a bit above the Yellow Band, above the rocky part, still dark. Then began to get light, but cloudy throughout after until about 8000m had a little view down to Nangapa La glacier. A little bit of traffic jam after second ridge at start of climb because someone had some problems. Also, a little bit on the rocky part of Yellow Band. Time on summit: 38 minutes. Met David Pujol team at summit. Super cloudy at summit, 20-30m visibility. Sometimes opened up a little bit. Struggled a bit on the last 100m to summit, skis on the back, etc. Last section sometimes fixed lines, sometimes not. Descent: skied first 200m on the track. Had to push himself through because it was so flat! Skied, but attached himself to the safety rope until the Yellow Band because bad visibility! Then reached the Yellow Band and waited as Alpenglow team were descending, abseiling parts he skied down. On the rocky part Prokop didn’t take off skies, but abseiled down. Then continued to ski from right below the Yellow Band to C2 without safety on/clipping in. Just above C2 at 7200m Prokop got in a snow slide. He stopped to rest and felt the slide moving. So got back on the trail/track. Due to no visibility, he could not see the snow slide, just could feel it. From C2 took off the skis, packed his gear, had some tea, spent 1.5 hrs there then once everything was packed skied down to C1. On the way to C1 abseiled a bit for 3-4m. Skied on the traverse, and skied down the ice cliff. Abseiled without skis, then skied all the way to C1. No snow at C1. Packed gear. Descended to ABC at 8:15 pm in the dark, still 25 Sept. Back to ABC on 25 Sept. Oxygen: No O2 for Prokop. Sherpa: Nima Kancha, Thame
Accidents -
Achievement -
Agency Climbalaya
Commercial Route True
Standard Route True
Primary Route False
Primary Member False
Primary Reference False
Primary ID -
Checksum 2463516
Year 2019
Summit Success True
O2 Summary Used
Route (lowercase) nw side

Members

10 recorded members.

Name Sex Year of Birth Citizenship Status Residence Occupation
David Pujol Hernandez M 1973 Spain Leader Chamonix, Haute-Savoie, France Alpine guide Details Other expeditions
Si-Fu (Spencer) Kuo M - Taiwan Climber - - Details Other expeditions
Virginia G. Loaiza Kejia F 1981 Mexico Climber Mexico City, Mexico Optometrist Details Other expeditions
Jerome Marie Jacques Magnin M 1967 France Climber Paris, France Asset manager Details Other expeditions
Felix Prokop M 1991 Germany Climber Munich, Bavaria, Germany Jurist Details Other expeditions
Hector Ricardo Velasco Ramos M - Mexico Climber Mexico City, Mexico Biomedical engineer Details Other expeditions
Ngima Nuru (Nima Nuru) Sherpa M 1981 Nepal H-A Worker Tesho, Khumbu - Details Other expeditions
Nima Kancha Sherpa M 1977 Nepal H-A Worker Pare, Khumbu - Details Other expeditions
Pemba Tenzing Sherpa M 1976 Nepal H-A Worker Thamo, Khumbu - Details Other expeditions
Tshering Wangchu (Tshering Ongchuk) Sherpa M 1983 Nepal H-A Worker Thamo, Khumbu - Details Other expeditions

References

0 recorded references.