Everest | 1975 N Col-NE Ridge

A China expedition to Everest in 1975 via N Col-NE Ridge, led by Shi Zhang-Chun. Summit reached on 27th May 1975. 32 members recorded.

Expedition Details

Field Value
ID 2762
Imported 2026-03-06 18:04:49.359634
Expedition ID EVER75102
Peak ID EVER
Year 1975
Season 1
Host Country 2
Route 1 N Col-NE Ridge
Route 2 -
Route 3 -
Route 4 -
Nationality China
Leaders Shi Zhang-Chun
Sponsor -
Success 1 True
Success 2 False
Success 3 False
Success 4 False
Ascent 1 18th
Ascent 2 -
Ascent 3 -
Ascent 4 -
Claimed False
Disputed False
Countries -
Approach Lhasa->Rongbuk
Basecamp Date 1975-03-13
Summit Date 1975-05-27
Summit Time 1215
Summit Days 75
Total Days 0
Termination Date -
Termination Reason 1
Termination Notes -
High Point (m) 8849
Traverse False
Ski False
Paraglide False
Camps 7
Fixed Rope (m) 0
Total Members 35
Summit Members 9
Member Deaths 1
Total Hired 99
Summit Hired 0
Hired Deaths 0
No Hired False
O2 Used True
O2 None False
O2 Climb True
O2 Descent False
O2 Sleep True
O2 Medical False
O2 Taken False
O2 Unknown False
Other Summits -
Campsites BC(13/03),C1(5500m),C2(6000m),C3(6500m),C4(7000m),C5(27/04,7600m),C6(04/05,8200m),C7(8600m),Smt(27/05)
Route Notes Samdrup (Tibetan Manaslu leader) - 3 April 96 Chinese Everest in 1975 2 bodies were found: 1) on East Rongbuk Glacier at 6400m, and 2) on North Ridge at 8100m (clothes touched by Wang Honbas) No old bodies found - 1 member of '75 team died Letter from TMA - March 20, 1993 Wu Zhoung-Yue, a deputy political commissar, who had climbed to 8500m on Everest in 1960 and to the summit of Xixabangma in 1964, now on May 4, 1975, got to 8100m and then had a fatal fall. Hisano, 3-nation Everest - 27 Feb 88 Chinese Everest 1975. About 500 members altogether (as in 1960) including: Over 200 soldiers for Transport from BC (5000m) to ABC (6500m) BC staff doctors communications personnel, journalist Climbers: 150 total 70 above North Col (7000m) 35 above 7600m Really a military exercise - Chinese sports committees are established for military fitness. Note: For the Himalayan Database, allocate 134 at 3:1 (Hired:Members ratio) 35 climbing members 99 hired members Chinese Mountaineering Expedition Successfuly Ascends World's Highest Peak - Qomolangma Feng Lhasa May 27, 1975 -- Just as the Chinese people are engaged in an enthusiastic study of the theory of the dictatorship of the proleteriat, a heartening news was flashed in from China's southwestern frontiers: nine members (one woman and eight men) on the Chinese mountaineering expedition successfully ascended the qomolangma feng (mount jolmo lungma)...the highest peak in the world...from its northern slope at 14:30 hours peking time today. The first Chinese woman who stepped on the highest point on earth is Phanthog of Tibetan nationality, deputy leader of the expedition. The eight male summiteers are: Sodnam Norbu (Tibetan), Darphuntso (Tibetan), Kunga Pasang (Tibetan), Tsering Tobgyal (Tibetan) and Ngapo Khyen (Tibetan). Their sterling performance today followed the pioneering feat of three other Chinese mountaineers, Wang Fu-chou, Konbu of Tibetan nationality and Chu Yin-hua who reached the summit from its forbidding northern face on May 25, 1960. This tremendous victory for China's mountaineering movement was won as a result of the king attention of Chairman Mao and the party central committee, the warm support given by people to surmount the numerous difficulties by relying on their own collective wisdom and strength. It is a measure of the new level attained by Chinese mountaineers after being tempered in the great proleterian cultural revolution and the movement to criticize Lin Piao and Confucius. The first ascent of the peak from the north by a Chinese woman climber in particular has brought into relief the invincible revolutionary spirit of Chinese woman after repudiating the reactionary fallacy of "man being superior to woman" preached by Lin Piao and his master Confucius. Setting out from the final assault camp pitched at 8680m above sea level this morning, the nine Chinese climbers reached the summit after a strenuous six and a half hours march, filled with a sense of pride and joy, they radioed to base camp at 14:30 Peking time that all of them had successfully reached thte pinnacle of the earth. They unfurled a five star red flag, erected a three metre high red metal surveying pole with the Chinese characters meaning "the mountaineering expedition of the people's republic of China," took photos and shot lengths of film about the summit, measured the thickness of the snow accumulation, and undertook radio remote-controlled cardiogram tests. These created highly important conditions and provided invaluable data for Chinese scientific workers to establish the exact height of the Qomolangma Feng and carry out relevant research. Activities of the expedition started in mid-March this year. The mountaineering expedition set up their base camp at Rongbuk monastery 5000 meters above sea level and, in the course of four acclimatization marches, built five altitude camps at 5500m, 6000m, 6500m, 7000m and 7600m above sea level respectively. then during the fifth march beginning from May 17, they built camp six and the final assault camp at 8200m and 8600m above sea level respectively. During their acclimatization marches and the final assault on the summit, the Chinese climbers, with lofty aspirations to win honour for the great leader chairman Mao and the great socialist motherland, defied hardships and death, surmounted difficulties and pressed forward valiantly, braving the rarity of oxygen severe cold under 30 degrees below zero centigrade, altitude, winds of whole gale and greater force, they overcame a host of difficulties on their march and triumphantly fulfilled this glorious and arduous tast with indomitable heroic spirit of daring to struggle and win and after undergoing all kinds of hardships. This expedition had tremendous support in various forms from the Tibet autonomous region, the Tibetan people, many provinces, municipalities and the autonomous regions in other parts of the country and the people's liberation army. Members of the summit party and personnel engaged in weather forecasting, scientific survey and study, transport and communications and other activities, under the leadershiop of the expedition party committee, worked in close coordination and finally won this brilliant victory.
Accidents -
Achievement 2nd ascent by a woman
Agency -
Commercial Route True
Standard Route True
Primary Route False
Primary Member False
Primary Reference -
Primary ID -
Checksum 2444625
Year 1975
Summit Success True
O2 Summary Used
Route (lowercase) n col-ne ridge

Members

32 recorded members.

Name Sex Year of Birth Citizenship Status Residence Occupation
Zhang-Chun Shi M - China Leader - - Details Other expeditions
Sonam Norbu M 1946 China Climber Lhasa, Tibet, China - Details Other expeditions
Lhotse (Louze) M 1938 China Climber Lhatse Dzong, Tibet, China - Details Other expeditions
Sheng-Fu Hou M 1939 China Climber Shaanxi, China - Details Other expeditions
Samdrup (Samdruk) M 1953 China Climber Shigatse, Tibet, China Alpinist Details Other expeditions
Da Phuntsok (Darphuntso) M - China Climber - - Details Other expeditions
Kunga Pasang (Gonga Basang) M 1947 China Climber - - Details Other expeditions
Tsering Tobgyal M - China Climber - - Details Other expeditions
Ngapo Khyen (Abu Qin) M 1956 China Climber - - Details Other expeditions
Phantog (Phandu, Pando) F 1939 China Climber Chamdo, Tibet, China - Details Other expeditions
Zong-Yue Guo M - China Climber - Deputy political commissar Details Other expeditions
Lian-Man Liu M - China Climber - - Details Other expeditions
Guisang (Kuisang) F 1957 China Climber Namling Dzong, Tibet, China - Details Other expeditions
Zhasang F - China Climber - - Details Other expeditions
Chamco F - China Climber - - Details Other expeditions
Pasang F - China Climber - - Details Other expeditions
Balzhan F - China Climber - - Details Other expeditions
Ching Hsu M - China Deputy Leader - - Details Other expeditions
Fu-Chou Wang M 1935 China Advisor - Secretary of Communist Party Committee Details Other expeditions
Cering Balzhon F - China Climber - - Details Other expeditions
Wangmo F - China Climber - - Details Other expeditions
Gaylo F - China Climber - - Details Other expeditions
Cedan Zhoma (Tseten Doma) F - China Climber - - Details Other expeditions
Cering Yangjan (Tsering Yangchen) F - China Climber - - Details Other expeditions
Huai-Mei Chou F - China Climber - - Details Other expeditions
Ling-Ling Hsing F - China Climber - - Details Other expeditions
Mingma Zhoma (Mingma Doma) F - China Climber - - Details Other expeditions
Dasang F - China Climber - - Details Other expeditions
Zhogar F - China Climber - - Details Other expeditions
Hong-Bao Wang M - China Climber - - Details Other expeditions
Rinchen Phuntsok (Rinchen Phinzo) M 1943 China Climber Lhunze Dzong, Tibet, China - Details Other expeditions
Bo-Yu Xia M 1951 China Climber Sichuan, China - Details Other expeditions

References

9 recorded references.

Expedition ID Journal Author Title Publisher Citation Yak 94
EVER75102 AAJ - - - 50:516-517 (1976) -
EVER75102 - China Another Ascent of the World's Highest Peak - Qomolangma Foreign Language Press, Peking - C193
EVER75102 AAJ Hawley, Elizabeth - - 68:275 (1994) -
EVER75102 MM Paine, John & Wilson, Ken Everest - North Ridge Climbed - 48:36-37 (Mar 1976) -
EVER75102 - - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/peoplesdaily/article-3588837/Failure-not-end-Amputee-climber-65-inspiration-repeated-attempts-reach-Everest-summit-despite-failing-four-times-41-years.html - - -
EVER75102 - - http://publications.americanalpineclub.org/articles/12199427500/Asia-Tibet-Everest-More-on-Earlier-Chinese-Expeditions - - -
EVER75102 - - http://publications.americanalpineclub.org/articles/12197651600/Asia-Nepal-Chinese-Ascent-of-Mount-Everest - - -
EVER75102 MM - Nine Who Climbed Qomolangma Feng - 46:20-24 (Nov 1977) -
EVER75102 IM - New Information on Chinese Ascents of Mount Everest - 6:75-78 (Autumn 1980) -