Everest | 2005 N Col-NE Ridge

A India expedition to Everest in 2005 via N Col-NE Ridge, led by Padubidre Nagesh Ganesh Rao. Summit reached on 3rd June 2005. 1 members recorded.

Expedition Details

Field Value
ID 4890
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Expedition ID EVER05105
Peak ID EVER
Year 2005
Season 1
Host Country 2
Route 1 N Col-NE Ridge
Route 2 -
Route 3 -
Route 4 -
Nationality India
Leaders Padubidre Nagesh Ganesh Rao
Sponsor Independent climber
Success 1 False
Success 2 False
Success 3 False
Success 4 False
Ascent 1 -
Ascent 2 -
Ascent 3 -
Ascent 4 -
Claimed True
Disputed False
Countries -
Approach Kodari->Tingri->BC
Basecamp Date 2005-04-18
Summit Date 2005-06-03
Summit Time 1000
Summit Days 46
Total Days 50
Termination Date 2005-06-07
Termination Reason 3
Termination Notes -
High Point (m) 8850
Traverse False
Ski False
Paraglide False
Camps 3
Fixed Rope (m) 0
Total Members 1
Summit Members 0
Member Deaths 0
Total Hired 1
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(18/04,5500m),ABC(27/04,6300m),C1(03/05,7300m),C2(13/05,7900m),C3(21/05,8300m),Smt(03/06)
Route Notes BC at CBC/IC on 25th at 5900m C1 at North Col (little higher). June 2 Ganesh and Nuru Sherpa left C2 at 11 am (NST); arrived C3 at about 7 pm. Then started from C3 at 11 pm. Punuru had to turn around because Ganesh had to use Punuru's oxygen as his oxygen was finished. Ganesh reached summit at 10 am of June 3, stayed on summit about 15 minutes. Descended to C3 where he reached at 1:30 pm then continued to C2 with Punuru where they reached at 5 pm and slept, next day to ABC. Before him at the summit were Dutch and Sherpa and Spanish people and Sherpas (Russell Brice's team) behind Ganesh there were 3 or people. Ganesh took flags of 192 countries - member of U.N. Weather was windy on the summit. Next, he wants to climb Everest from south side. Ganesh returned to KTM on June 8 and probably will leave on 11th. P. N. Ganesh's Everest summit claim (E. Hawley, 21 July 2005) P. N. Ganesh, an Indian police officer whose name is actually Ganesh Nagesh Rao, says he summited Everest on 3 June, 2005. He climbed via the North Col. His account is as follows. At first he had a Sherpa, Phu Nuru from Kharikhola, with him, but he says Phu Nuru got diarrhea and cough and went with him only to the North Col; Phu Nuru was replaced by another man who he says was named Ang Rita, who went as high as the Second step (about 8600m) on their summit push on the 3rd of June, then turned back because of their dwindling oxygen supply. Ganesh went on alone to the top and got there at about 10:00 am. The problem is that the date and time he says he summited, and the nationalities of the people who he reports were with him on the top, were not there, according the other teams reports of their own movements. Also his second Sherpa was not named Ang Rita. The only other summiters that day were a Briton, a Norwegian, two South Africans and three Nepalese Sherpas from the Jagged Globe expedition led by the Brit, David Hamilton, and they had left the summit two and half hours before he says he arrived. In any case, he says there were just four others, two of them Sherpas, with him on the top. (The Jagged Globe people had stayed there for about an hour). Furthermore, he thinks his fellow summiters were Dutch and Spanish as well as two Sherpas, whereas the only Dutch summiters went to the top on the 2nd and 4th of June, and the only Spaniards summited on the 21st and 30th of May. He was sure the two Sherpas were with Russell Brice's expedition, but that team's members and Sherpas were on the summit only on the 4th and 5th of June. (Brice had no Dutch or Spanish members at all). Ganesh had no doubt that his summit date was the 3rd of June. He says the time was 10:00 am; he had no watch with him but his Sherpas, whom he calls Ang Rita, told him it was 10:00 am. How did the Sherpa know at what time he summited when the Sherpa had turned back at 8600m, and a person at the summit cannot be seen from anywhere above the North Col below a rock ledge at about 8800m? Ganesh's second Sherpa was assigned to him by Asian Trekking, whose permit he climbed on by arrangement with his trekking agency, Parikarma treks. Dawa of Asian Trekking, who looks after their teams on the north side of Everest, said on 21 July the Sherpa was Nima Gyalzen from Beding, who had summited Everest four times, most recently with the Indian navy in the spring of 2004, a team Asian Trekking handled. (Dawa knows no climber named Ang Rita who is currently climbing). Dawa met Ganesh and Nima Gyalzen when they came back to KTM from Everest, and Nima Gyalzen said Ganesh had been on the top. How did he know that? Ganesh had told him. Nawang Pasang (Jagged Globe summiter on 3 June 2005) said on 31 July 2005 "I am sure no one else [besides Jagged Globe Team] went to summit that day [3 June 2005]." He left summit at about 9:30 am he thinks (but is vague about time) and met no one coming up for top as he descended to ABC the same day. He met Russell Brice's group moving up from 7800m to 8300m that day, he says (correctly). Nima Gyalzen (by telephone) - 16 Aug 2005 Nima Gyalzen said that he went with Ganesh up to 7500m or so and then turned back because it was very cold and windy. He does not know whether Ganesh got to the summit or not, he volunteered and repeated several times. (He sounded as though he had been asked this question often).
Accidents -
Achievement 1st person to summit from Karnataka State
Agency Parikarma Treks
Commercial Route True
Standard Route True
Primary Route False
Primary Member False
Primary Reference False
Primary ID -
Checksum 2459670
Year 2005
Summit Success False
O2 Summary Used
Route (lowercase) n col-ne ridge

Members

1 recorded members.

Name Sex Year of Birth Citizenship Status Residence Occupation
Padubidre Nagesh Ganesh Rao M 1961 India Leader Bangalore, India Sub-inspector in Karnataka state police force Details Other expeditions

References

0 recorded references.