Everest | 2021 Lho La-W Ridge-N Face (Hornbein Couloir)

A Germany expedition to Everest in 2021 via Lho La-W Ridge-N Face (Hornbein Couloir), led by Jost Kobusch. Summit reached on 5th January 2022. 1 members recorded.

Expedition Details

Field Value
ID 10699
Imported 2026-03-06 18:04:49.359634
Expedition ID EVER21401
Peak ID EVER
Year 2021
Season 4
Host Country 1
Route 1 Lho La-W Ridge-N Face (Hornbein Couloir)
Route 2 -
Route 3 -
Route 4 -
Nationality Germany
Leaders Jost Kobusch
Sponsor Jost Kobusch Everest Expedition Winter 2021-2022
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 Lukla->Namche->Lobuche BC
Basecamp Date 2021-12-18
Summit Date 2022-01-05
Summit Time -
Summit Days 18
Total Days 76
Termination Date 2022-03-04
Termination Reason 4
Termination Notes Abandoned at 6450m due to bad weather
High Point (m) 6450
Traverse False
Ski False
Paraglide False
Camps 3
Fixed Rope (m) 160
Total Members 1
Summit Members 0
Member Deaths 0
Total Hired 0
Summit Hired 0
Hired Deaths 0
No Hired True
O2 Used False
O2 None True
O2 Climb False
O2 Descent False
O2 Sleep False
O2 Medical False
O2 Taken False
O2 Unknown False
Other Summits -
Campsites BC(18/12,5050m),ABC(21/12,5200m),ABC2(22/12,5350m),C1(25/12,5700m),C2(02/01,6000m),C3(05/01,6450m),xxx
Route Notes BC 18/12 5050m Pyramid at Lobuche ABC 21/12 5200m Everest BC ABC2 22/12 5350m Bottom of Lho La C1 25/12 5700m Where glacier meets rock C2 02/01 6000m Just below the La behind a knob C3 05/01 6450m Underneath a cornice HPt 05/01 6450m On 20/12 Kobusch and his cook set up an ABC at Everest BC. But he only spent there one night. On 22/12, he walked across EBC for about 2 km to the bottom of the Lho La and set up a camp there. Over the next few days, he fixed the rocky route on the Lho La with a rope. It was all very fast. On 23/12 he fixed the lower part, on 22/12 he fixed the upper part on the Lho La. He set up his C1 on 5700m with the tent he had dismantled from the bottom of the Lho La and stayed one night at C1. On 26/12 he ascended to about 6000m to check the route and leave some gear up there. He fixed about 10m of rope on this stretch. After that he returned to the Pyramid. The weather was very good and calm but cold. He chose an easy route, rock grade maybe 5a. Little brittle. On 02/12 he set off again from Lobuche to reach C1. On 03/01, he returned to his deposit where he also set up his C2 at 6000m. The ground was firn and he dug a hole for his tent as he was expecting the winds to pick up. On 03/01 he ascended to 6400m and fixed technical difficulties with some rope. It was mixed terrain. He started in a crack that was about grade 5. Old ladders and ropes from previous expeditions. Gear was old and not usable apart from some bolts, which he used to fix his rope. Dry tooling on a dry rock passage which turned into blue ice. Pretty vertical. He fixed this section with three snow anchors and then returned to C2. On 04/01 he stayed at C2 and played Nintendo. On 05/01, he ascended again to the place where he set up three snow anchors and continued from there. The route was mixed with rock and blue ice and he reached 6450m. Very exposed route. Lots of old unusable gear from other expeditions. He set up his tent underneath a cornice and stayed the night there. On 06/01, he stayed the day and on 07/01 he took his tent down and stored it in a hole. He descended to Lobuche. It was very very cold and he got slight frostnip on his feet. He thinks about -40 degrees. On 20/01 he set out again even though the weather forecast was bad. When he reached his first ABC (Everest BC), where he found his tent completely destroyed from the wind. He continued to his C1 where he spent the night and on 21/01 he ascended to C2. In the night of 21/01, the winds were so strong that his tent was torn, the poles broke. He wrapped himself into his tent and used it like a bivouac. He could not boil any water and descended on 22/01. He took the broken poles but left the rest of his gear up there. During the descent it was still very windy. He was a bit under shock from the night and returned back to Lobuche. He checked the weather forecast daily, read a lot, went for walks and ascended to C1 again for two nights on 07/02 to acclimatize. The night was very windy again that ripped his tent again. He returned to Lobuche and when the weather forecast looked a bit better at the end of February he intended to reach 7600m during his next rotation. On 23/02 he left Lobuche again, 24/02 C1; 25/02 C3 (he skipped C2 as it was completely destroyed). When he was at C3 the weather turned bad again and he decided to abandon the expedition as the weather was just too bad. He spent three nights up there and stayed in the tent as the winds were so bad that he was worried that his tent would fly again. The wind ripped 10 holes into tent. On 28/02, he packed up his gear and descended to C1, spent one night there, packed up his C1 (about 50kg) and descended to EBC where his cook met him and his photographer Daniel Hug, who helped him carry and pack up his gear. They descended to Gorak Shep, where they spent one night. On 02/03 they returned to EBC and packed up everything. Jost thinks that his expedition was successful as he had already reached 6450m on 05/01 as if the weather had been good he would have had enough time to reach a higher point.
Accidents -
Achievement -
Agency Satori Adventures
Commercial Route False
Standard Route False
Primary Route False
Primary Member False
Primary Reference False
Primary ID -
Checksum 2464711
Year 2021
Summit Success False
O2 Summary None
Route (lowercase) lho la-w ridge-n face (hornbein couloir)

Members

1 recorded members.

Name Sex Year of Birth Citizenship Status Residence Occupation
Jost Kobusch M 1992 Germany Leader Borgholzhausen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany Professional alpinist Details Other expeditions

References

1 recorded references.

Expedition ID Journal Author Title Publisher Citation Yak 94
EVER21401 - - https://abenteuer-berg.de/en/jost-kobusch-after-his-everest-expedition-it-was-a-tough-winter/ - - -