Pumori | 2019 SE Face-E Ridge

A New Zealand expedition to Pumori in 2019 via SE Face-E Ridge, led by Mark Woodward, Russell Brice. Summit reached on 1st May 2019. 11 members recorded.

Expedition Details

Field Value
ID 10312
Imported 2026-03-06 18:04:49.359634
Expedition ID PUMO19101
Peak ID PUMO
Year 2019
Season 1
Host Country 1
Route 1 SE Face-E Ridge
Route 2 -
Route 3 -
Route 4 -
Nationality New Zealand
Leaders Mark Woodward, Russell Brice
Sponsor Himalayan Experience (Himex) Pumori Expedition 2019
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 Australia, Austria, UK
Approach Lukla->Pangboche->Everest BC
Basecamp Date 2019-04-04
Summit Date 2019-05-01
Summit Time 1300
Summit Days 27
Total Days 53
Termination Date 2019-05-27
Termination Reason 1
Termination Notes -
High Point (m) 7138
Traverse False
Ski False
Paraglide False
Camps 3
Fixed Rope (m) 0
Total Members 8
Summit Members 4
Member Deaths 0
Total Hired 4
Summit Hired 3
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 Summited Everest (EVER-191-15)
Campsites BC(04/04,5200m),C1(5800m),C2(13/04,6400m),C3(02/05,6800m),Smt(01-03/05)
Route Notes BC 04/04 5200m C1 - 5800m (did not sleep) C2 13/04 6400m C3 02/05 6800m Smt 01/01 by Phura Namgya, Nima Tenzing Smt 02/05 by Woodward, Keck, Hewitt, Tashi Tenjing at 12:48, Hocking at 13:46. Climb abandoned by: Jacobus Strydom at C2 on 2 May due to cold feet and hands Dan Clements at C2 on 2 May due to not motivated Terry Byrne at C2 on 2 May due to trouble with artificial leg From Russell Brice's blog: I daresay the main news is that yesterday we completed our acclimatization on Pumori. When I say completed this process, I mean that the Sherpas carried the last loads off the mountain from C2 yesterday. The last of the members were back at BC the day before, but I do not consider and expedition complete until everyone is back safe to BC. As I have already mentioned it was a bit of an experiment to climb Pumori instead of Lobuche for acclimatization. We established C1, which is where many Everest climbers do day walks during the season, this we never stayed in and only used the tent to store equipment in, just to save carrying boots and crampons and the like up and down from BC. The route went into a small gully before going up an easy snow ramp, and then followed a series rock buttresses and short scree slopes until reaching a straight forward snow slope to the main arete leading up to C2. This soon lead into a steep ice tower that we needed to traverse around on steep hard ice. This lead to a short 7m vertical ice wall to drop into the bottom of a large crevasse. C2 was located on the bottom of this crevasse on a small snow ledge. It took us 3 days to make the route from C1 to C2 as well as carry enough rope to get to C3. Of course, there was another vertical ice wall to climb out of the crevasse onto an easy snow slope that lead to yet another 4m vertical ice wall that gave us access to an easy snow covered ledge. We followed this ledge before heading up another steep ice section that gave us access to another ledge that took us to some large easy slopes, but knee deep snow in the center of the face. But this proved to be of no avail as all of these easy slopes were cut off from the upper slopes by large crevasses. So we had to return from this sortie, recovering our ropes, and return to the original snow ledge. This took us a full day of work with very little progress. The following day we again went to our high point and traversed even further right before climbing a short 3m overhanging ice section that lead to a steep snow slope that got us high on the mountain. Another short snow ledge and another short steep snow slope brought us to the skyline ridge, which is the border between Nepal and Tibet. A short drop of about 25m took us to a prominent col and a flat area where we could make C3. On 01 May at 13.00 Phura Namgya and Nima Tenzing from Himex managed to fix rope to the summit. Dawa Steven and Nanda Dorje from Asian Trekking also reached the summit at the same time. (I have known Dawa for many years and when he asked if the two of them could use our route, I agreed and was able to get the required permissions for these two Sherpas to climb). On 02 May at 12.48 Mark Woodward, Stephan Keck, Martin Hewitt and Tenjing Tashi reached the summit, and at 13.46 Ian Hocking reached the summit. Everyone returned to BC the following day, but we had to leave some equipment at C2, so it was only yesterday that we were able to return and collect this.
Accidents -
Achievement -
Agency Mountain Experience
Commercial Route False
Standard Route False
Primary Route False
Primary Member False
Primary Reference True
Primary ID EVER19115
Checksum 2463729
Year 2019
Summit Success True
O2 Summary None
Route (lowercase) se face-e ridge

Members

11 recorded members.

Name Sex Year of Birth Citizenship Status Residence Occupation
Russell Reginald Brice M 1952 New Zealand Co-Leader London, England Alpine guide & expedition organizer Details Other expeditions
Mark Wynton Woodward M 1963 New Zealand Co-Leader Queenstown, New Zealand Alpine guide Details Other expeditions
Terence James Byrne M 1984 UK Climber Layer de la Maxe, Colchester, Essex, England Management Details Other expeditions
Daniel Clements M 1979 UK Climber Lavant, W Sussex, England Sales Details Other expeditions
Martin Joseph Hewitt M 1980 UK Climber Wilmslow, Cheshire, England Business owner Details Other expeditions
Ian Michael Hocking M 1970 UK Climber Sandiway, Cheshire, England Vice president of software company Details Other expeditions
Stephan Erich Keck M 1973 Austria Climber Kramsach, Tirol, Austria Alpine guide Details Other expeditions
Jacobus Strydom M 1969 Australia Climber Kew, Victoria, Australia IT manager Details Other expeditions
Nima Tenzing Sherpa M 1994 Nepal H-A Worker Thami, Khumbu - Details Other expeditions
Phura Namgya Sherpa M 1987 Nepal H-A Worker Khumjung, Khumbu - Details Other expeditions
Tenzing Tashi Sherpa M 1999 Nepal H-A Worker - - Details Other expeditions

References

0 recorded references.