Pumori | 2009 SE Face (to 6140m)

A Slovenia expedition to Pumori in 2009 via SE Face (to 6140m), led by Andrej Stremfelj. Summit reached on 27th April 2009. 11 members recorded.

Expedition Details

Field Value
ID 6504
Imported 2026-03-06 18:04:49.359634
Expedition ID PUMO09101
Peak ID PUMO
Year 2009
Season 1
Host Country 1
Route 1 SE Face (to 6140m)
Route 2 SE Face (to 5730m)
Route 3 -
Route 4 -
Nationality Slovenia
Leaders Andrej Stremfelj
Sponsor Slovenia Pumori 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 Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia
Approach -
Basecamp Date 2009-04-15
Summit Date 2009-04-27
Summit Time -
Summit Days 12
Total Days 10
Termination Date 2009-04-25
Termination Reason 5
Termination Notes Abandoned at 6140m due to route conditions too dangerous
High Point (m) 6140
Traverse False
Ski False
Paraglide False
Camps 0
Fixed Rope (m) 0
Total Members 9
Summit Members 0
Member Deaths 0
Total Hired 2
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 Climbed Mera Peak (19 Apr by Andrej Stremfelj and Stipe Bozic on 6 May 2009)
Campsites BC(15/04,5140m),xxx(27/04,6140m)
Route Notes While Stremfeljs went to Mera, rest went direct to BC where Andrej and Marija Stremfelj arrived on 22 April from Mera Peak. Slovenian Pumori Expedition led by Andrej Stremfelj - 6 May 2009 The expedition included members who were celebrating thirty years of climbing together, they came to enjoy being on a mountain together once more. They tried two different lines on the SE Face. (They are numbered 57 & 59 on the sketches of Pumori in Jan Kielkowski's booklet). On 18 April Bozic, Groselj, Pemba Sherpa and Pemba Gyalzen went to the standard route (often called the Spanish route). They climbed to 5400m, then decided that falling ice and stones made that route too dangerous and returned to BC the same day. On the 21st, the same four climbers attempted the line, the so called French route, that starts slightly to the left of the standard route. They fixed 200m of rope up this route to 5700m that day and descended to BC. On the 23rd, Kotnik, Metod Skarja, Vodisek and the two Sherpas went back to the second route. Skarja got only to 5100m on the face, had not acclimatized well, and turned back to BC, while the others continued on up and and added more rope to 5730m before returning to BC. The next day, there were a lot of falling rocks, so they decided that line was too dangerous. Andrej Stremfelj, who had joined the others at BC on the 22nd, decided to go to their original line and see conditions for himself. He and the two Sherpas went there on 27 April. The three men climbed to 6100m after having fixed 150m at the bottom of the route and finding some old ropes already on the route were still sound. Stremfelj went alone to 6140m, and from there he could see the way ahead was too difficult and dangerous for him to climb alone, but most of the other members had left BC on the 25th. He retreated to BC and the team's bid to climb Pumori was over. On the 29th, Andrej Stremfelj and Pemba Sherpa trekked wast from Kalapattar to Changri La, a 5697m high pass to go to Gokyo. They stopped at the pass without crossing it because Stremfelj felt the other side of the pass was too steep for the Sherpa. They returned to BC that day and on the 30th, they, Marija Stremfelj and Groselj vacated BC. Two members never went above BC: veteran alpinist Tone Skarja and Sead Muhic. Sherpas: Pemba Sherpa, 1981, Lamabagar-1, Dolakha, no 8000ers Pemba Gyalzen, 4/9/74, Phortse, Everest X2
Accidents -
Achievement -
Agency Wilderness Experience
Commercial Route False
Standard Route False
Primary Route False
Primary Member False
Primary Reference False
Primary ID -
Checksum 2458353
Year 2009
Summit Success False
O2 Summary None
Route (lowercase) se face (to 6140m)

Members

11 recorded members.

Name Sex Year of Birth Citizenship Status Residence Occupation
Stipe Bozic M 1951 Croatia Climber Split, Croatia Journalist Details Other expeditions
Viktor (Viki) Groselj M 1962 Slovenia Climber Ljubljana, Slovenia Sports teacher Details Other expeditions
Ivan (Ivc) Kotnik M 1951 Slovenia Climber Velenje, Slovenia Mechanical engineer Details Other expeditions
Sead Muhic M 1981 Bosnia-Herzegovina Climber Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina Professor Details Other expeditions
Anton (Tone) Skarja M 1937 Slovenia Climber Menges, Slovenia Retired electro-technician Details Other expeditions
Metod Skarja M 1963 Slovenia Climber Ljubljana, Slovenia Physician Details Other expeditions
Andrej Stremfelj M 1956 Slovenia Leader Kranj, Slovenia Sports teacher Details Other expeditions
Marija Stremfelj F 1957 Slovenia Climber Kranj, Slovenia Biology teacher Details Other expeditions
Rafael (Rafa) Vodisek M 1953 Slovenia Climber Ljubljana, Slovenia Technician Details Other expeditions
Pemba Sherpa M 1982 Nepal H-A Worker Lamabagar-1, Dolakha - Details Other expeditions
Pemba Gyalzen Sherpa M 1974 Nepal H-A Worker Phortse, Khumbu - Details Other expeditions

References

0 recorded references.