Everest | 2008 S Col-SE Ridge

A France expedition to Everest in 2008 via S Col-SE Ridge, led by Francois Bon. Summit reached on 17th October 2008. 2 members recorded.

Expedition Details

Field Value
ID 6124
Imported 2026-03-06 18:04:49.359634
Expedition ID EVER08301
Peak ID EVER
Year 2008
Season 3
Host Country 1
Route 1 S Col-SE Ridge
Route 2 -
Route 3 -
Route 4 -
Nationality France
Leaders Francois Bon
Sponsor Trek On-Line/Acro-Base to Everest
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 2008-09-24
Summit Date 2008-10-17
Summit Time -
Summit Days 23
Total Days 26
Termination Date 2008-10-20
Termination Reason 6
Termination Notes Abandoned at 7200m due to avalanche injuries
High Point (m) 7200
Traverse False
Ski False
Paraglide False
Camps 2
Fixed Rope (m) 800
Total Members 1
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 False
O2 Descent False
O2 Sleep False
O2 Medical True
O2 Taken False
O2 Unknown False
Other Summits -
Campsites BC(24/09,5350m),C1(05/10,6050m),C2(13/10,6400m),xxx(17/10,7200m)
Route Notes Trek on Line/Acro-Base on Everest, Francois Bon - 21 Oct 2008 Bon arrived at base camp on 24 Sept and spent a week there resting and acclimatizing. Then, when he was ready to move up to C1, he had to wait for the Sagarmatha Pollution Control Committee (SPCC) to finish making the Icefall route. He got to C1 on 5 October, slept there one night and returned to BC. On the 13th, he and Pasang Tenzing established C2 at 6400m in the Western Cwm; it was their advance base camp. They spent four nights there waiting for the wind to drop and the route to C3 to be opened, and a fifth night (of the 17th/18th) after having climbing to the site for C3. They did not stay in C3 because the strength of the wind was increasing; they went back to C2. When they had descended about 100 meters from C3's site, they were hit by an avalanche. It carried them about 500 linear meters down the West Face of Lhotse to the bergschrund at the bottom. A large chunk of ice had struck Bon's right knee; a ligament in his knee was broken, and his chest was battered, preventing him from being able to breathe deeply. Pasang also was no longer able to breathe deeply, and his knees and chest were painful. In C2 that night Bon got no sleep. He spent the night trying to hold the tent together against the wind that was blowing at 160-170 km/hr. He went onto oxygen that night and stayed on it until he reached Kathmandu by helicopter from Gorak Shep on the 20th (Pasang did not use oxygen). The winds that night shredded other team's tents in C2: the Koreans tents were completely destroyed. The weather forecast said the fierce winds would continue for three more days. There was a lot of avalanching from all sides of the Cwm. A cloud of avalanche snow from Nuptse covered base camp one day; on the 13th, the tents at C1 were crushed by ten meters of snow which came off the SW Face of Everest, and their contents were lost. The Icefall was moving every day. Two minutes after Bon went through it, a huge serac collapsed, and these collapses occured frequently. On the 20th, Bon left BC to go to Gorak Shep, from where a small helicopter evacuated him to Kathmandu. Sherpa: Pasang Tenzing, 21/1/78, Phortse, Everest X8, Cho Oyu X1
Accidents Avalanche injuries to Bon and Pasang
Achievement -
Agency Himalaya Expeditions
Commercial Route True
Standard Route True
Primary Route False
Primary Member False
Primary Reference False
Primary ID -
Checksum 2461040
Year 2008
Summit Success False
O2 Summary Used
Route (lowercase) s col-se ridge

Members

2 recorded members.

Name Sex Year of Birth Citizenship Status Residence Occupation
Francois Bon M 1972 France Leader Bourg St. Maurice, Savoie, France Test pilot in air sports (parapenting) Details Other expeditions
Pasang Tenzing Sherpa M 1978 Nepal H-A Worker Phortse, Khumbu - Details Other expeditions

References

0 recorded references.