Manaslu | 2012 NE Face

A France expedition to Manaslu in 2012 via NE Face, led by David Lavie. Summit reached on 30th September 2012. 1 members recorded.

Expedition Details

Field Value
ID 7765
Imported 2026-03-06 18:04:49.359634
Expedition ID MANA12324
Peak ID MANA
Year 2012
Season 3
Host Country 1
Route 1 NE Face
Route 2 -
Route 3 -
Route 4 -
Nationality France
Leaders David Lavie
Sponsor Manaslu 2012
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 2012-09-11
Summit Date 2012-09-30
Summit Time -
Summit Days 19
Total Days 21
Termination Date 2012-10-02
Termination Reason 7
Termination Notes Abandoned at 7800m due to exhaustion
High Point (m) 7800
Traverse False
Ski False
Paraglide False
Camps 2
Fixed Rope (m) 0
Total Members 1
Summit Members 0
Member Deaths 0
Total Hired 0
Summit Hired 0
Hired Deaths 0
No Hired True
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(11/09,4800m),C1(20/09,5750m),C2(21/09,6350m),xxx(30/09,7800m)
Route Notes David Lavie started with South Asian Trekking but was inserted with the Monterosa Treks expedition (which did indeed manage everything well in BC) whose other members were: Johann Wenzl (Austria) who climbed alone like him without Sherpas and oxygen 4 Polish people led by Zbigniew Bak, who just climbed with one Sherpa Ascent schedule: David Lavie second acclimatization trip from the 20th to the 22nd of September where he slept to C1 then C2. The 22nd after he reached C3 he felt too tired to sleep there, so went back to BC. David Lavie started for the summit on the 28th of September and went from BC to C2 for sleeping. He felt sick in 29th morning and had a rest on C2 during the day instead of going to C3. At 9 pm he felt he had recovered enough to climb during the night. He reached C3 at 11:30 pm. There he met a lovely Spanish girl called Eva; along with her he continued to climb for C4 and they both reached at 5 am on the 30th September. Here he felt too cold and tired with too much wind, he spent 1 and half hours in a tent. Eva was waiting for him. At 6:30 am with less wind and sun, both decided to start again. Davie Lavie stopped at 7800m (according to him the plateau presented some steps which hid him the summit) at 10:30 am due to exhaustion, whereas Eva apparently continued to the summit. Here David Lavie knew he would not have enough time on his schedule to recover from his bid (at least he would have needed 4 or 5 days) more the good weather forecast had to end very soon after the 1 October, so he abandoned the climb. The same day he went down to C2 that he reached between 3 and 4 pm and where he slept. The day after, on 1st October he was back to the base camp and the day after already back to Samagaon. At the beginning David Lavie wanted to ski down from the summit. But he didn't carry skies at all during his summit attempt, he had difficulty to install the camps on his own. For that reason David Lavie did not install C4 and even C3. David Lavie believes that climbers without oxygen and Sherpas should start directly from C3.
Accidents -
Achievement -
Agency Monterosa Treks
Commercial Route True
Standard Route True
Primary Route False
Primary Member False
Primary Reference False
Primary ID -
Checksum 2459338
Year 2012
Summit Success False
O2 Summary None
Route (lowercase) ne face

Members

1 recorded members.

Name Sex Year of Birth Citizenship Status Residence Occupation
David Jean Michel Lavie M 1972 France Leader Eybens, Isere, France Computer scientist Details Other expeditions

References

0 recorded references.