Manaslu | 2009 NE Face

A France expedition to Manaslu in 2009 via NE Face, led by Paulo Grobel. Summit reached on 19th May 2009. 13 members recorded.

Expedition Details

Field Value
ID 6491
Imported 2026-03-06 18:04:49.359634
Expedition ID MANA09108
Peak ID MANA
Year 2009
Season 1
Host Country 1
Route 1 NE Face
Route 2 -
Route 3 -
Route 4 -
Nationality France
Leaders Paulo Grobel
Sponsor Paulo Manaslu Expedition
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 -
Basecamp Date 2009-04-30
Summit Date 2009-05-19
Summit Time -
Summit Days 19
Total Days 23
Termination Date 2009-05-23
Termination Reason 4
Termination Notes Abandoned at 7600m due to bad weather
High Point (m) 7600
Traverse False
Ski False
Paraglide True
Camps 7
Fixed Rope (m) 0
Total Members 10
Summit Members 0
Member Deaths 0
Total Hired 7
Summit Hired 0
Hired Deaths 0
No Hired False
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(30/04,4850m),C1(04/05,5350m),C2(05/05,5700m),C3(08/05,6100m),C4(14/05,6350m),C5(16/05,6700m),C6(18/05,7100m),C7(19/05,7450m),xxx(19/05,7600m)
Route Notes The team approached the mountain by bus to Besisahar, trekked around Manaslu via its west side and Larkya Pass to Samagaon. Grobel's policy is to progress up a mountain slowly without descending to lower camps until the end of the climb. To do this, his teams establish more camps than others do. When bad weather strikes, his teams stay in whatever camp they happen to be in at the time. Hence this expedition had seven high camps. The expedition made one big for the summit. Damilano, Dupuy, Grobel, Mahou, Odier, Rudolf and Vulin, plus Birkram Sing, Chhotemba Sherpa and Thami Kubir Rai, left C7 at 5:00 am on 20 May and reached 7600m at about 6:00 am. Now bad weather, wind, clouds and snow, was coming, and Grobel decided that they must go down, thus abandoning the climb. They had no time to wait for better weather. Rudolf paraglided from C7 to Samagaon, to where their BC had been moved, in half an hour. The other members and Sherpas took two days to get to Samagaon: they descended to C4 that day, and were in Samagaon on 21 May. They left on the 23rd to return to Kathmandu. Non-summit team members: Bizet reached C3 on 8 May; he had a bad headache, left C3 on the 10th and the expedition on the 14th. Valleise went to C2 on the 7th, but an old neck injury was causing him pain; he returned to BC the same day and left the expedition on the 10th. Nepalese climbers: Bikram Sing, 28/5/81, Gangaparaspur-6, Dang, no 8000ers Chhotemba Sherpa, 29/9/84 he says; 5/10/84 according to Himalayan Database, Densichhungbu he says, Grobel thinks Walung, Database says Nurbugaon, all agree Makalu-9, no 8000ers Thami Kubir Rai, 23/8/75 (7/5/2032), Bung-7, Solu, no 8000ers
Accidents -
Achievement -
Agency Thamserku Trekking
Commercial Route True
Standard Route True
Primary Route False
Primary Member False
Primary Reference False
Primary ID -
Checksum 2458060
Year 2009
Summit Success False
O2 Summary None
Route (lowercase) ne face

Members

13 recorded members.

Name Sex Year of Birth Citizenship Status Residence Occupation
Laurent Bizet M 1978 France Climber Veyrier du Lac, Rhone-Alpes, France Mechanical engineer Details Other expeditions
Luc Cviklinski M 1947 France Climber Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France Physiotherapist Details Other expeditions
Francois Damilano M 1959 France Climbing Guide Chamonix, Haute-Savoie, France Alpine guide Details Other expeditions
Pierre-Olivier Dupuy M 1981 France Climber Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, France Teacher Details Other expeditions
Paul Marc (Paulo) Grobel M 1957 France Leader La Grave, Hautes-Alpes, France Alpine guide Details Other expeditions
Philippe Mahou M 1960 France Climber Poitiers, Vienne, France Communications director of national center for distance learning Details Other expeditions
Hubert Odier M 1955 France Climber Grenoble, Isere, France Publisher Details Other expeditions
Michel Rudolf M 1968 France Climber Les Carroz, Haute-Savoie, France Engineer & paragliding intructor Details Other expeditions
Florent Valleise M 1961 France Climber Poitiers, Vienne, France Hair dresser Details Other expeditions
Paul Vulin M 1957 France Climber Les Adrets, Isere, France Retired factory owner Details Other expeditions
Bikram Singh M 1981 Nepal H-A Worker Gangaparaspur-6, Dang - Details Other expeditions
Chhotemba (Cho Temba) Sherpa M 1984 Nepal H-A Worker Nurbugaon, Walung, Makalu-Barun - Details Other expeditions
Thami Kubir Rai M 1975 Nepal H-A Worker Bung-7, Solukhumbu - Details Other expeditions

References

1 recorded references.

Expedition ID Journal Author Title Publisher Citation Yak 94
MANA09108 - - http://www.paulo-grobel.com/05_expes/Fiches_PDF/cr_manaslu/manaslu_topo.htm - - -