Makalu | 2017 Makalu La-NW Ridge

A Russia expedition to Makalu in 2017 via Makalu La-NW Ridge, led by Dmitri Sinev. Summit reached on 11th May 2017. 13 members recorded.

Expedition Details

Field Value
ID 9423
Imported 2026-03-06 18:04:49.359634
Expedition ID MAKA17103
Peak ID MAKA
Year 2017
Season 1
Host Country 1
Route 1 Makalu La-NW Ridge
Route 2 -
Route 3 -
Route 4 -
Nationality Russia
Leaders Dmitri Sinev
Sponsor Seven Summit Treks Makalu Expedition 2017
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 Belgium, Germany, Lithuania, Malta
Approach Tumlingtar, Jeep to Num, trekked to BC
Basecamp Date 2017-04-17
Summit Date 2017-05-11
Summit Time -
Summit Days 24
Total Days 42
Termination Date 2017-05-29
Termination Reason 1
Termination Notes -
High Point (m) 8485
Traverse False
Ski False
Paraglide False
Camps 3
Fixed Rope (m) 0
Total Members 9
Summit Members 1
Member Deaths 0
Total Hired 4
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(17/04,4800m),ABC,C1,C2,C3,Smt(11/05)
Route Notes Seven Summit Treks Makalu expedition was a combination of several independent teams (1-2 climbers each). Seven Summits provided transportation, base camp facilities and various levels of high altitude support (oxygen, high-altitude porters, tents, etc) as required and contracted for by each team. The individual accounts for each team are given below: Gregory Attard (Malta) Raphael Fenech Adami (Malta) Appr: Tumlingtar, jeep to Num, trekked to BC Camps: BC(01/05,4800m),ABC(02/05,5600m),C1(05/05,6400m),C2(06/05,6650m), C3(09/05,7450m),Smt(11/05) Left: 13/05/2017 Hired: 1 Term: Success at 10:30 am. Attard departed high camp at 11 pm on 10 May, summited at 10:30 am 11 May. Was very windy at first and I left the tent when wind died down a little. Waited for a fellow climber Raphael Fenech Adami and his Sherpa. We left together, but they turned back after 20 mins at 7500m. Climb was interesting, but uneventful. Clouds came in and it started snowing soon after reaching summit. Descended to C3. Attard did not use a Sherpa. Sherpa: Phurba Sherpa, Makalu, 18/01/80 (with Raphael Fenech Adami) Saulius Damaulevicius - 29 Oct 2018 Damaulevicius says that Gregory Attard as well as members of MAKA-171-02 only reached the foresummit and not main summit. Rudi Bollaert (Belgium) Appr: Tumlingtar, jeep to Num, trekked to BC Camps: BC(17/04,4800m),ABC(20/04,5600m),C1(24/04,6400m),C2(25/04,6650m), C3(08/05,7450m),xxx(21/05,7600m) Left: 24/05/2017 Hired: 2 Term: Abandoned at 7600m due to being too slow. The first time Bollaert went to C3 on 8 May, he went together with Phil Crampton's Altitude Junkies. That night the rope-fixing team was supposed to fix up to the summit, but did not due to bad weather. They reached C4, but it was too windy and the fixing team returned to C3. On 9 May Bollaert went down to ABC. The next window was around 20 May. The weather was bad and they ended up in a snow storm in C3. They stayed a night and on 21 May they left C3 at 8 pm to go for the summit (with Phurba and Dawa Sherpa). Bollaert was too slow and decided to turn back to C3, where they arrived at 11 pm. On 22 May to ABC. Left ABC on 24 May. Oxygen: Taken and used from C3 to high point to C3 by Bollaert. Thomas Laemmle (Germany) Appr: Tumlingtar, jeep to Num, trekked to BC Camps: BC(20/04,4840m),ABC(21/04,5690m),C1(6100m),C2(24/04,6650m), C3(08/05,7480m),xxx(21/05,8300m) Left: 29/05/2017 Hired: 0 Term: Abandoned at 8300m due to being too late in the day. Laemmle had 4 attempts for the summit. On his third summit attempt, he reached C3 on 20 May. He was with Rudi Bollaert from Belgium, who had 2 climbing Sherpas. Laemmle left C3 at 11 pm on 20 May. He wanted to follow Rudi and the two Sherpas, who had left C3 at 8 pm. At 12:30 am he reached C4, where there was a Spanish and a Russian team, who were also waiting for the Sherpas to open the route. He left C4 again at 1:30 am, with the Spanish and Russians following him. At about 8150m Xavier from Spain helped Laemmle break trail. When at about 2 am they reached the bottom of the French Couloir, Laemmle thought it would be too late to reach the summit. He decided to turn around. Laemmle tried one last summit push from Hillary BC. He started on 25 May and reached C2 the same day after 9 hours. On 26 May he ascended from C2 to C3 in seven hours. On 26 May, he left C3 at 9:30 pm. This time he reached 8050m, but there was too much snow and the weather was turning bad. He turned back at 6 am and descended to C2, where he arrived at 4 pm. On 28 May back to ABC. Laemmle orginally planned to attempt Lhotse after completing Makalu, but this was canceled. Oxygen: Not taken, not used. Rainer Pircher (Germany) Tobias Schwab (Germany) Appr: Tumlingtar, jeep to Num, trekked to BC Camps: BC(19/04,5000m),ABC(21/04,5600m),C2(23/04,6650m),C3(08/05,7500m),xxx Left: 13/05/2017 Hired: 0 Term: Abandoned at 7500m due to bad weather forecast. The team was on their summit attempt; however, the weather forecast was not good for the next few days (cold and wind) and as they were climbing without supplemental oxygen, they decided to abandon the expedition. On 9 May, they descended from C3 to ABC, where they arrived at 9 pm. Oxygen: Not taken, not used. Saulius Damaulevicius (Lithuania) Alexander Lutokhin (Russia) Dimitri Sinev (Russia) Appr: Num by helicopter, trekked to BC Camps: BC(16/04,4880m),ABC(18/04,5600m),C1(21/04,6350m),C2(23/04,6650m), C3(09/05,7450m),C4(20/05,7600m),xxx(21/05,8200m) Left: 25/05/2017 by helicopter Hired: 0 Term: Abandoned at 7500m due being too slow with weather deteriorating. High point team left C4 at midnight. Weather was perfect, but very cold. After about one hour they found it difficult to find the route. The spent about 40 minutes to find it. There was only old fixed rope. After about 100m they found new fixed ropes and saw that they had to go right. They also were too slow. They wanted to be on top at about 8 am, but they were still below 8000m at 9 am. At noon they decided to turn back as they were too slow and the weather was changing. They descended to C4, where they arrived at 5 pm. On 22 May to BC. Oxygen: Not taken, not used.
Accidents -
Achievement -
Agency Seven Summit Treks
Commercial Route False
Standard Route True
Primary Route False
Primary Member False
Primary Reference -
Primary ID -
Checksum 2460847
Year 2017
Summit Success True
O2 Summary Used
Route (lowercase) makalu la-nw ridge

Members

13 recorded members.

Name Sex Year of Birth Citizenship Status Residence Occupation
Rudi Anna R. Bollaert M 1967 Belgium Climber Hamme, Belgium Owner of outdoor shop Details Other expeditions
Phurba Sherpa M 1990 Nepal H-A Worker Makalu-5, Makalu-Barun - Details Other expeditions
Dawa Tenji Sherpa M 1996 Nepal H-A Worker Nurbugaon, Makalu-Barun - Details Other expeditions
Thomas Laemmle M 1965 Germany Climber Waldburg, Baden-Wuerttemburg, Germany Alpine guide & sports scientist Details Other expeditions
Rainer Lorenz Pircher M 1967 Germany Climber Marktoberdorf, Bavaria, Germany Alpine guide Details Other expeditions
Tobias Schwab M 1976 Germany Climber Trostberg, Bavaria, Germany Financial controller Details Other expeditions
Saulius Damulevicius M 1982 Lithuania Climber Vilnius, Lithuania Business consultant Details Other expeditions
Dmitri Sinev M 1972 Russia Leader Moscow, Russia Engineer Details Other expeditions
Alexandr Lutokhin M 1962 Russia Climber Chernogolovka, Moscow, Russia Director of electronics manufacturing company Details Other expeditions
Nima (Ngima) Sherpa M 1977 Nepal H-A Worker Nurbugaon, Makalu-Barun - Details Other expeditions
Raphael Fenech Adami M 1961 Malta Climber Sllema, Malta Advocate Details Other expeditions
Gregory Attard M 1976 Malta Climber Zabbar, Malta Physician Details Other expeditions
Lakpa Sherpa M 1996 Nepal H-A Worker Makalu-5, Makalu-Barun - Details Other expeditions

References

3 recorded references.

Expedition ID Journal Author Title Publisher Citation Yak 94
MAKA17103 - - https://www.facebook.com/thomas.lammle.79 - - -
MAKA17103 - - http://www.sevensummittreks.com/blog_details/190/makalu-summit-update - - -
MAKA17103 - - https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10212986229316880.1073741838.1426129256&type=3 - - -