Everest | 2008 S Col-SE Ridge

A Japan expedition to Everest in 2008 via S Col-SE Ridge, led by Yuichiro Miura. Summit reached on 26th May 2008. 15 members recorded.

Expedition Details

Field Value
ID 6013
Imported 2026-03-06 18:04:49.359634
Expedition ID EVER08146
Peak ID EVER
Year 2008
Season 1
Host Country 1
Route 1 S Col-SE Ridge
Route 2 -
Route 3 -
Route 4 -
Nationality Japan
Leaders Yuichiro Miura
Sponsor Miura Qomolangma Project 2008
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 -
Approach -
Basecamp Date 2008-04-25
Summit Date 2008-05-26
Summit Time 0733
Summit Days 31
Total Days 35
Termination Date 2008-05-30
Termination Reason 1
Termination Notes -
High Point (m) 8849
Traverse False
Ski False
Paraglide False
Camps 5
Fixed Rope (m) 0
Total Members 5
Summit Members 3
Member Deaths 0
Total Hired 14
Summit Hired 8
Hired Deaths 0
No Hired False
O2 Used True
O2 None False
O2 Climb True
O2 Descent True
O2 Sleep True
O2 Medical True
O2 Taken False
O2 Unknown False
Other Summits -
Campsites BC(25/04),C1(29/04,6000m),C2(05/05,6300m),C3(23/05,7300m),C4(24/05,7900m),C5(25/05,8300m),Smt(26/05)
Route Notes C5 at 200m below Balcony (same as 1953?). Miura Qomolangma Project 2008 led by Yuichiro Miura - 2 June 2008 The summit party left for the top from C5, which had been placed at 8300m, 200m below the Balcony, which the Miuras thought was probably the site of the 1953 British Expedition's final camp, but the 1953 expedition account gives their estimated altitude as 8500m. The summit party consisted of Yuichiro Miura, Igarashi, Muraguchi and eight Sherpas (Nga Temba, Pemba Gyalzen, Nima Kancha, Nima Nuru, Phur Gyalzen, Ongje, Thomting and Thundu). They left C5 at 12:30 am (just after midnight) on 26 May, when it was extremely cold and the wind was extremely strong: from the Balcony to the South Summit, the route was covered by wind-blown snow. They reached the summit on 26 May at 7:33 am, when the wind was still strong, but as they passed the south summit, the sun came out from behind the clouds. The summiters descended to C4 at 2:30 to 3:00 pm that day and slept there. On the 27th they were down in C2, the 28th in BC, left BC on the 30th, and on the 31st took a helicopter from Lobuche to Kathmandu. Yuichiro Miura's son, Gota Miura, was in the summit party, but at noon on 25 May, when they were on their way to C5, he turned back at 8200m. He got pulmonary edema while climbing from C4 at 12:30 am on the 25th, and now developed cerebral edema also. He returned to C4, gave himself injections, and went on down to C2. He was obeying the voice of "someone" speaking to him in his left ear, telling him to inject Dexatron and go down, "it was a harsh male voice, from 8200m ot 8150m saying "hurry, hurry." He had no feeling in the back of his head, his back and both legs. The day before he had climbed with a 30-kilo load without oxygen but was coughing blood. He recovered fully before the team left BC. Yuichiro Miura's project was to become to oldest person to reach the summit of Everest. But unluckily for him, a Nepalese man summited: Min Bahadur Sherchan, born on 30 June, 1931, was 15-1/2 months older than the Japanese, who was well-known as "the man who skied down Everest." Miura said, "If he's 76 years old and he climbed it, that's wonderful." But Miura was uncertain about Sherchan's success on 25 May since Yoshinobu Kato, a Japanese who summited on 24 May and was in C4 from 23rd to 25th, never saw Sherchan at C4 or above it. The only time Kato saw Sherchan from the 22nd to the 25th was when he passed Sherchan while both men were climbing up to C3 on the 22nd. (Sherchan was identifiable by the badge he was wearing which read "77 Challenge" -- Nepalis way of counting age is not to use the number of years they have completed, but the number of the current year: Sherchan had completed 76 years and was "running" 77.) Oxygen was used by Yuichiri Miura sleeping in C1, climbing from 6700m, climbing from 6700m, climbing and sleeping in and from C3 to the summit, and climbing and sleeping to BC. The other Japanese members started on it sleeping in C2 and C3, then climbing from C3 to their high points to and in C2, except for Gota Miura, who used it on the night of 22 May sleeping in C2 and C3 and again from 7700m climbing and sleeping to 8200m to BC. Most of the Sherpas used it only in C4 to high points to and in C4, but Nga Temba continued using it down to C3. In addition, C4 manager Dawa Tashi used it while staying in C4 and to C3. Besides Gota Miura's serious altitude sickness, the team's health problems were two climbers snowblindness and one Sherpa's altitude sickness. Snowblindness struct Pemba Gyalzen, who had packed up his goggles at C4 and didn't bother to take them out of his pack during his descent, and Muraguchi, the cameraman, who lost his goggles when he took them off at the summit to take pictures and the wind blew them away. Danuru got altitude sickness in C2 on 18 May and had to drop out of the summit-attack team. Everest Spring 2008 (Postscript) - 10 July 2009 Yuichiro Miura, Japanese, and Min Bahadur Sherchan, Nepalese, had the ambition to become the oldest Everest summiter, and they summited via the South Col just one day apart, Sherchan on 25 May 2008 and Miura on the 26th of May. According to Sherchan's citizenship certificate on record in the tourism ministry's file, he was born on 20 June 1931. Miura's stated date of birth was 14 Oct 1932. Sherchan was thus the older man. But the Guinness Book of Records recognized Miura as the oldest Everest summiter, and explained at the time that Sherchan had not submitted satisfactory documents to prove his claim. The subject has come to public attention recently through a story in The Rising Nepal of 29 June 2009, which reports complaints by two of the Nepalese who helped Sherchan get to the top, that he had not paid them the substantial bonuses he had promised them it they got him to the summit. The story also quotes the treasurer of the Trekking, Travel and Rafting Workers Union, Suman Prasad Parajuli, as declaring that Sherchan "lied about his age and was not even 76 when he made it to the top." (The article does not state what his actual age was supposed to be.) Parajuli told Jeevan Shrestha that he did not speak about Sherchan's age, and that his interest is confined to Sherchan's alleged failure to pay what he owed his helpers. Second postscript - November 24, 2009 Sherchan submitted the necessary convincing documents to Guinness Book Of Records and was formally recognized as the oldest Everest summiter in September. He received the Guinness certificate from Nepal's prime minister, Madhav Kumar Nepal, in a ceremony on 23 November. He said at the ceremony that he plans to go to the top of Everest again when he is 84 years old. "The age of 84 is considered the incarnation of 'living god' in Nepal," he explained. Fixed rope: from C3 to C4. Sherpas: Danuru Sherpa, 10/4/73, Namche, Everest X1, Cho Oyu X4 Dawa Tashi, 1964, Beding, Everest X6, Cho Oyu X1, K2 X1 Nga Temba, 1950, Kharikhola, Everest X3, Cho Oyu X1, Makalu X1, Kangch X1 Nima Kancha, 44 years old, Thami Nima Nuru/Nurbu, 20/2/80, Thamiteng, Everest X1, Cho Oyu X2 Ongje, 22/8/83, Gaurishankar-2, Everest X1, Cho Oyu X1, Manaslu X1 Pemba Gyalzen, 22/7/69, Thami, Everest X4, Cho Oyu X3, Makalu X1 Phur Gyalzen, 16/4/70, Thami/Yilajung, Everest X2, Cho Oyu X2 Thomting, 19/12/74, Beding, Everest X4, Cho Oyu X6 Thundu, 18/2/78, Beding, Everest X3, Cho Oyu X2
Accidents -
Achievement -
Agency Rolwaling Trek
Commercial Route True
Standard Route True
Primary Route False
Primary Member False
Primary Reference False
Primary ID -
Checksum 2460896
Year 2008
Summit Success True
O2 Summary Used
Route (lowercase) s col-se ridge

Members

15 recorded members.

Name Sex Year of Birth Citizenship Status Residence Occupation
Kazuya Igarashi M 1959 Japan Climber Tokyo, Japan Director of children's camp Details Other expeditions
Gota Miura M 1969 Japan Deputy Leader Tokyo, Japan Professional skier Details Other expeditions
Yuichiro Miura M 1932 Japan Leader Tokyo, Japan Professional skier Details Other expeditions
Yuta Miura M 1966 Japan BC Manager Tokyo, Japan IT engineer Details Other expeditions
Noriyuki Muraguchi M 1956 Japan Climber Ito, Shizuoka, Japan Cameraman Details Other expeditions
Ngatemba (Nga Temba) Sherpa M 1955 Nepal H-A Worker Sikli, Jubing, Solukhumbu - Details Other expeditions
Nima Kancha Sherpa M - Nepal H-A Worker Thami, Khumbu - Details Other expeditions
Nima Nurbu Sherpa M 1980 Nepal H-A Worker Thamiteng, Khumbu - Details Other expeditions
Ongje (Wangche) Sherpa M 1983 Nepal H-A Worker Gaurishankar-2, Dolakha - Details Other expeditions
Pemba Gyalzen/Geljen Sherpa M 1969 Nepal H-A Worker Thami, Khumbu - Details Other expeditions
Phur Gyalzen (Fur Geljen) Sherpa M 1970 Nepal H-A Worker Yilajung, Khumbu - Details Other expeditions
Tamting Sherpa M 1974 Nepal H-A Worker Beding, Dolakha - Details Other expeditions
Thundu Sherpa M 1978 Nepal H-A Worker Beding, Dolakha - Details Other expeditions
Dawa Tashi Sherpa M 1964 Nepal H-A Worker (C4 Mgr) Beding, Dolakha - Details Other expeditions
Danuru (Dawa) Sherpa M 1973 Nepal H-A Worker Namche Bazar, Khumbu - Details Other expeditions

References

1 recorded references.

Expedition ID Journal Author Title Publisher Citation Yak 94
EVER08146 - - http://www.snowdolphins.com - - -