Tawoche | 1990 SE Pillar-SE Ridge

A Germany expedition to Tawoche in 1990 via SE Pillar-SE Ridge, led by Juergen Knappe. Summit reached on 26th October 1990. 4 members recorded.

Expedition Details

Field Value
ID 704
Imported 2026-03-06 18:04:49.359634
Expedition ID TAWO90302
Peak ID TAWO
Year 1990
Season 3
Host Country 1
Route 1 SE Pillar-SE Ridge
Route 2 -
Route 3 -
Route 4 -
Nationality Germany
Leaders Juergen Knappe
Sponsor German Tawoche Expedition
Success 1 True
Success 2 False
Success 3 False
Success 4 False
Ascent 1 9th
Ascent 2 -
Ascent 3 -
Ascent 4 -
Claimed False
Disputed False
Countries -
Approach -
Basecamp Date 1990-10-16
Summit Date 1990-10-26
Summit Time 1340
Summit Days 10
Total Days 0
Termination Date -
Termination Reason 1
Termination Notes -
High Point (m) 6495
Traverse False
Ski False
Paraglide False
Camps 1
Fixed Rope (m) 0
Total Members 4
Summit Members 2
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(16/10,5150m),C1(25/10,5850m),Smt(26/10)
Route Notes BC at yak huts Sanshochopo under East Face near small lake C1 at top of rock pillar, SE Pillar. Did new route on SE Pillar's face to SE Ridge. Some really difficult steep rock climbing in last pitch on pillar. Before getting onto pillar had to fix 200-300m to traverse pinnacles to save time when proceeding to climb pillar; fixed no rope on pillar. Pinnacles began at 5300m and pillar also began at 5300m. Biv on 25 Oct by 4 members. On 26 Oct all to summit up SE Ridge: one step at start of SE Ridge found old ropes and here joined other people's route (this step in at top a couloir leading to SE Ridge. Started climb on 26th at 8:00 am and on top at 1:40 pm via not very difficult ridge (4 pitches of ice climbing but good snow and ice conditions on 50-60-degree slope and fixed no rope here. Only 2 on summit while other 2 lost time on rock step, were 1 hour behind summiters and stopped ascent at about 6300m. Summiters back in C1 at 4:00 pm and all slept that night at C1. 27th 3 down pillar and Fuetterer stayed in camp and on 28th tried again for summit. Fuetterer reached about 6350m in snow pitches and down to BC same day.
Accidents None
Achievement -
Agency Asian Trekking
Commercial Route -
Standard Route -
Primary Route False
Primary Member False
Primary Reference -
Primary ID -
Checksum 2451756
Year 1990
Summit Success True
O2 Summary None
Route (lowercase) se pillar-se ridge

Members

4 recorded members.

Name Sex Year of Birth Citizenship Status Residence Occupation
Christian Fuetterer M 1963 Germany Climber Raststadt, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany University student of mechanics Details Other expeditions
Juergen Knappe M 1962 Germany Leader Karlsruhe, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany Dental technician Details Other expeditions
Axel Schloenvogt M 1962 Germany Climber Karlsruhe, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany Electrical engineer Details Other expeditions
Steffen Schloenvogt M 1963 Germany Climber Erlangen, Bavaria, Germany Medical-equipment technician (Siemens) Details Other expeditions

References

3 recorded references.

Expedition ID Journal Author Title Publisher Citation Yak 94
TAWO90302 AAJ Hawley, Elizabeth - - 65:233 (1991) -
TAWO90302 MM - - - 137:9 (Jan 1991) -
TAWO90302 - - http://publications.americanalpineclub.org/articles/12199123301/Asia-Nepal-Tawoche - - -