Everest | 1952 N Col-NE Ridge

A USSR expedition to Everest in 1952 via N Col-NE Ridge, led by Pavel Datschnolian. 6 members recorded.

Expedition Details

Field Value
ID 2750
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Expedition ID EVER52302
Peak ID EVER
Year 1952
Season 3
Host Country 2
Route 1 N Col-NE Ridge
Route 2 -
Route 3 -
Route 4 -
Nationality USSR
Leaders Pavel Datschnolian
Sponsor -
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 Tibet
Basecamp Date -
Summit Date -
Summit Time -
Summit Days 0
Total Days 0
Termination Date -
Termination Reason 13
Termination Notes Attempt rumored
High Point (m) 8200
Traverse False
Ski False
Paraglide False
Camps 8
Fixed Rope (m) 0
Total Members 40
Summit Members 0
Member Deaths 0
Total Hired 36
Summit Hired 0
Hired Deaths 0
No Hired False
O2 Used False
O2 None False
O2 Climb False
O2 Descent False
O2 Sleep False
O2 Medical False
O2 Taken False
O2 Unknown True
Other Summits -
Campsites BC,C1,...,C8,xxx(8200m)
Route Notes Expedition rumored, but unconfirmed. Six climbers disappeared at C8. Evgeny Tamm - 2 Dec 81 Mr Tamm, a 54-year-old physics researcher and experienced mountaineer living in Moscow, said through an interpreter that reports circulated in the west over the past decades that an unsuccessful Soviet attempt had been made on Everest from the Chinese side in 1952 were entirely wrong, and he appealed to the who attended his press conference (on the upcoming Soviet 1982 expedition) to correct what term "this disinformation." These reports, which he asserted had no foundation in fact whatsoever, had said that a very large Russian team led by Pawel Datshnolian had managed to send climber to an altitude of at least 8200m late in the autumn of 1952 on this 8848m giant mountain and then the leader and five others disappeared never to be seen again. Mr. Tamm said he did not want to guess who was responsible for these completely false reports. He said that no one in Soviet mountaineering had ever heard of a climber name Datschnolian.
Accidents 6 climbers died of unknown causes
Achievement Russians claim this attempt never happened
Agency -
Commercial Route True
Standard Route True
Primary Route False
Primary Member False
Primary Reference -
Primary ID -
Checksum 2042
Year 1952
Summit Success False
O2 Summary Unknown
Route (lowercase) n col-ne ridge

Members

6 recorded members.

Name Sex Year of Birth Citizenship Status Residence Occupation
Pavel Datschnolian M - USSR Leader - - Details Other expeditions
Alexi Metzdarov M - USSR Climber - - Details Other expeditions
Vladimir Kashinski M - USSR Climber - - Details Other expeditions
Ivan Lentsov M - USSR Climber - - Details Other expeditions
Anatoli Jindomnov M - USSR Climber - - Details Other expeditions
Joseph Dengumarov M - USSR Climber - - Details Other expeditions

References

4 recorded references.

Expedition ID Journal Author Title Publisher Citation Yak 94
EVER52302 AAJ - - - 28:210 (1954) -
EVER52302 AJ Gippenreiter, Yevgeniy B. Mount Everest and the Russians: 1952 and 1958 - 99:109-115 (1994) -
EVER52302 - - http://publications.americanalpineclub.org/articles/12195421002/Asia-Nepal-Mt-Everest-Russian-Attempt - - -
EVER52302 - - https://www.alpinejournal.org.uk/Contents/Contents_1994_files/AJ%201994%20109-115%20Gippenreiter%20Everest.pdf - - -