Manaslu | 2008 NE Face

A UK expedition to Manaslu in 2008 via NE Face, led by Henry Todd. Summit reached on 4th October 2008. 8 members recorded.

Expedition Details

Field Value
ID 6169
Imported 2026-03-06 18:04:49.359634
Expedition ID MANA08323
Peak ID MANA
Year 2008
Season 3
Host Country 1
Route 1 NE Face
Route 2 -
Route 3 -
Route 4 -
Nationality UK
Leaders Henry Todd
Sponsor ICE 8000 Manaslu Expedition 2008
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 Mexico, Switzerland, USA
Approach -
Basecamp Date 2008-09-13
Summit Date 2008-10-04
Summit Time 0930
Summit Days 21
Total Days 23
Termination Date 2008-10-06
Termination Reason 1
Termination Notes -
High Point (m) 8163
Traverse False
Ski False
Paraglide False
Camps 3
Fixed Rope (m) 500
Total Members 5
Summit Members 4
Member Deaths 0
Total Hired 5
Summit Hired 3
Hired Deaths 0
No Hired False
O2 Used True
O2 None False
O2 Climb True
O2 Descent True
O2 Sleep False
O2 Medical False
O2 Taken False
O2 Unknown False
Other Summits -
Campsites BC(16/09,5900m),C1(16/09,5900m),C2(17/09,6700m),C3(04/10,7400m),Smt(04-05/10)
Route Notes De Bourgknecht left Kathmandu on 29 August by bus to Pokhara and took a helicopter to Samagaon, below BC, on the 30th. Jen took a helicopter from Kathmandu to Samagaon and arrived at BC on 13 September. Contreras, Gonzalez and Todd left Kathmandu on 25 August, by bus to Besisahar, trekked via Larkya La and Samagaon to BC, where they arrived 6 September. Jen climbed somewhat independently of the other three climbing members. He and Todd went to C1 on the 17th, a day after the other three had reached there. On the 17th, Jen went up to C2 at 3:00 pm the same day, heard from the Jagged Globe team (led by Adele Pennington) that a storm was forecast, slept in C1 because he was not well acclimatized, then went to BC on the 18th. Todd accompanied him from C1 to BC. The other climbers went to C2 on the 17th and stayed there that night. The storm arrived during the night with heavy snowfall, and they descended to BC on the 18th. The snowstorms continued until 27 September. It was only on the 30th that the four members (not including Todd) returned to C1. Their Sherpas tried to find C2 that day, but they were not successful and returned to C1. On 1 October, their Sherpas made a new C2 at 6400m, 300m lower than the first C2, and later the same day De Bourgknecht and Jen with his Sherpa went up to the new C2. Contreras and Gonzalez climbed to new C2 on the 2nd, and in the late afternoon moved up to 6700m, to Jagged Globe's C2, and slept in their empty tent. Jen went even higher to 6900m. On 3 October, Jen and his Sherpa made C3 at 7400m while the other three climbing members made a high C2 at 6800m at the North Col. On the 4th, Jen and Lhakpa Thundu went to the summit. They went up a day before the others because he wanted to use oxygen, and the others did not intend to do so; he wanted to go at a faster pace than they would be able to manage. Jen and Lhakpa Thundu left C3 at 4:00 am, summited at 9:30 am, and slept in C2. The other three climbing members and their two Sherpas, Dorje Gyalzen and Lhakpa Wangchu, moved up to C3 on the 4th and on the 5th all of them went to the top. They left C3 at 4:30 am. De Bourgknecht reached the summit at 10:00 am, Contreras and Gonzalez were 55 minutes behind him. The three descended all the way to BC that night: De Bourgknecht joined Jen there at 10:00 pm and Contreras and Gonzalez were there at 10:00 pm and Contreras and Gonzalez were there at 11:00 pm. Non-summiter Todd went above BC only once, on 17 September with Jen, and returned to BC the next day. Oxygen: Jen and Lhakpa Thundu used oxygen from C3 to the top. De Bourgknecht used it from about 7700m to the top, taking Lhakpa Wangchu's oxygen; he continued to use oxygen intermittently down to BC. Lhakpa Wangchu used it from 7400m to 7700m, where he handed it over to De Bourgknecht, and used none after that. Contreras was feeling unsteady when he got to 8100m and decided to go onto oxygen; he and Gonzalez used it from 8100m to the top to C3. Dorje Gyalzen, climbing with them, was on oxygen from C3 to the summit to C3. Illness: Todd had a mild case of influenza. Pasang Nuru Sherpa got a bad chest infection, spent about a week in BC and left the expedition on 11 September. Sherpas: Pasang Nuru, aka Ang Nuru, 13/4/76, Pangboche, Cho Oyu X4, Everest X3 Dorje Gyalzen, 16/7/82, Pangboche, Everest X3 Lhakpa Thudu/Thundu, aka Tindu, 20/5/70, Pangboche, Everest X6, Cho Oyu & Annapurna I X1 each Lhakpa Wangchu, 20/10/86, Pangboche, Everest X2
Accidents -
Achievement -
Agency Himalayan Guides
Commercial Route True
Standard Route True
Primary Route False
Primary Member False
Primary Reference False
Primary ID -
Checksum 2457787
Year 2008
Summit Success True
O2 Summary Used
Route (lowercase) ne face

Members

8 recorded members.

Name Sex Year of Birth Citizenship Status Residence Occupation
Henry Barclay Todd M 1945 UK Leader Kingussie, Inverness, Scotland Expedition organizer & leader Details Other expeditions
Robert Vincent (Bob) Jen M 1953 USA Climber New York, New York Real estate developer Details Other expeditions
Lhakpa Thundu/Thudu (Tindu) Sherpa M 1970 Nepal H-A Worker Pangboche, Khumbu - Details Other expeditions
Lhakpa Wangchu Sherpa M 1986 Nepal H-A Worker Pangboche, Khumbu - Details Other expeditions
Cedric C. De Bourgknecht M 1983 Switzerland Climber Genthod, Geneva, Switzerland Medical doctor Details Other expeditions
Yuri Contreras Cedi M 1963 Mexico Climber Leon, Guanajuato, Mexico Orthopedic surgeon Details Other expeditions
Laura Gonzalez del Castillo Aranda F 1966 Mexico Climber Leon, Guanajuato, Mexico Teacher Details Other expeditions
Dorje Gyalzen Sherpa M 1982 Nepal H-A Worker Pangboche, Khumbu - Details Other expeditions

References

0 recorded references.