Urkema | 2007 N Face

A Singapore expedition to Urkema in 2007 via N Face, led by Sim Seng Amos Chye. Summit reached on 12th September 2007. 35 members recorded.

Expedition Details

Field Value
ID 6996
Imported 2026-03-06 18:04:49.359634
Expedition ID URMA07301
Peak ID URMA
Year 2007
Season 3
Host Country 1
Route 1 N Face
Route 2 -
Route 3 -
Route 4 -
Nationality Singapore
Leaders Sim Seng Amos Chye
Sponsor Baden Powell Scout Peak
Success 1 True
Success 2 False
Success 3 False
Success 4 False
Ascent 1 1st
Ascent 2 -
Ascent 3 -
Ascent 4 -
Claimed False
Disputed False
Countries Australia, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Nepal, S Korea, Taiwan
Approach -
Basecamp Date 2007-09-10
Summit Date 2007-09-12
Summit Time 1200
Summit Days 2
Total Days 3
Termination Date 2007-09-13
Termination Reason 1
Termination Notes -
High Point (m) 5890
Traverse False
Ski False
Paraglide False
Camps 1
Fixed Rope (m) 800
Total Members 28
Summit Members 15
Member Deaths 0
Total Hired 8
Summit Hired 7
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 Tserko Ri (4984m) 9 Sept by all members and Sherpas
Campsites BC(10/09,3900m),HC(10/09,4996m),Smt(12/09)
Route Notes BC at Kyanjin Gompa. Baden Powell Peak Expedition led by Sim-Seng Amos Chye - 3, 6 & 10 January Leadership: Sim Seng Amos Chye of Singapore is the nominal leader only. Each country team had its own team leader, and Sirdar Phurba Pasang actually led the climb. The expedition was organized by Nepal Scouts to mark the 150th birth anniversary of the founder of the world wide scouting movement, Lord Baden Powell. They selected a Langtang Himal peak known as Urkema (5890m), which the Nepalese authorities opened to climbers in 2006 and in 2007 officially renamed as Baden Powell Scout Peak. The expedition party consisted of foreigners from Boy Scout organizations who planned to trek into Langtang, some of whom expected to climb a modest Langtang mountain. The climbing team consisted of 24 foreigners climbers, one Nepalese (a Newar) from Nepal Scout headquarters in Kathmandu and six Sherpas. The foreigners were three Chinese from Hong Kong, seven South Koreans, six Singaporeans, six Taiwanese, and one Australian. The organization of the group was handled by the Nepal Scout's headquarters, and the group's activities began with two nights' stay at the Scouts' camp at Kakani, on the road leading out of the Kathmandu Valley to the west towards Trisuli Bazar. They trekked for 11 days on a circular route that retured them to Syabru Besi on 6 September. Then they trekked for four days to their mountain followed the Langtang Khola eastward to Kyanjin Gompa (3900m), where they made their BC. They made a quick acclimatization ascent of nearby Tserko Ri (4984m); all climbing members and Sherpas summited it on 9 September. The next day the climbing team trekked for over seven hours to high camp (4996m) by going westward along the Khola to the bridge across the river, crossing over, then eastward again uphill for over four hours to the north side of their timberline and just below the snowline. From the gompa to high camp was a vertical climb of more than 1200 meters over a horizontal distance of 3.2 kms. On 12 September, the climbing party headed for the summit up the North Face, starting at 2:00 am. From High Camp they crossed a rocky field and climbed up about 50 meters before they reached a rock slab on the right. From here, they moved along a glacier and up its 40-degree slope to a snow bowl. They zigzagged their way up, keeping to the right to avoid obvious crevasses, then climbed an 80-degree ice slope towards a rock face to the west. They continued on the ice and climbed to the top of a ridge at about 5500m, then traversed eastward to the SE Ridge. From here, Mangles, an experienced climber, and three of the six Sherpa summiters set fixed ropes for the inexperienced members. They crossed into deeper snow in the center of a bowl, then up a 50-degree slope and up a 50-degree ridge to about 60 meters to the summit. The day's push to the summit was definitely not a trek: the climb was probably at the same level of difficulty as ascending Island Peak in Khumbu. Mark Mangles of Australia was first to gain the top at about 12:00 noon and descended in two hours from top to high camp at 3:00 pm, at the same time as the last person, Naresh Maharjan of Nepal Scouts headquarters, reached the summit. A total of 15 members summited. They were Chang, Cho, Seng Kenny, Kim Hee-Jang, Kim Jong-Seok, Kim Seok-Won, Lai, Lee Cheng-Hsiu, Mark Mangles, Maharjan, Ng, Park, Pyo, Tay and Wu. Mangles continued down to BC that afternoon, but all the other climbers stopped for the night in high camp; the last one to arrived in camp got there at about 7:30 pm. Everyone was back in BC late in the morning of 13 September and left camp the same day to return to Kathmandu. Mangles believes that it would be wise to pitch a camp between Kyanjin Gompa and the 4996m so-called high camp. "While it can be done relatively easily in one day [from Kyanjin] (that's how he we did it), from an acclimatization perspective, an intermediate camp would help reduce the likelihood of altitude sickness, especially given that a number of younger climbers will/are attempting this peak. As to placing it, I would probably look at half ay between (altitude wise) Kyanjin Gompa and High Camp. There were a number of water sources on the walk in." Sherpa etc. summiters: Bag Bir Tamang, 26/8/76, Solu, no 8000ers Bal Bahadur Tamang, about 35 years old, Rasuwa, no 8000ers Karma Gyalzen Sherpa, 31/7/88, Charwa, Sotang-6, Solu, no 8000ers (son of Phurba Pasang, team's sirdar). Lama Babu Sherpa, Charwa, Sotang-6, Solu, no 8000ers Nawang/Nawang Sherpa, 15/1/80, Sotang-6, Solu, no 8000ers Phurba Pasang Sherpa, 6/10/58, Charwa, Sotang-6, Solu, Cho Oyu X5, father of Karma Gyalzen Temba Sherpa, 4/9/77, Sotang-6, Solu, Everest X3 Non-summiting Sherpas: Sherku Sherpa, no 8000ers
Accidents Seok Won Kim's incipient altitude sickness
Achievement 1st ascent
Agency Explore Himalaya
Commercial Route False
Standard Route False
Primary Route False
Primary Member False
Primary Reference False
Primary ID -
Checksum 2458073
Year 2007
Summit Success True
O2 Summary None
Route (lowercase) n face

Members

35 recorded members.

Name Sex Year of Birth Citizenship Status Residence Occupation
Hsiao-Tse Chang M 1981 Taiwan Climber Taiwan - Details Other expeditions
Wai-Yin Cheung M 1986 China Climber Hong Kong - Details Other expeditions
Sang-Yong Alex Cho M 1978 S Korea Climber S Korea - Details Other expeditions
Abdul Wahab Hashim M - Malaysia Climber Malaysia - Details Other expeditions
Cheuk-Ping Ho M - China Climber Hong Kong - Details Other expeditions
Wei-Kang Robert Hung M 1983 Taiwan Climber Taiwan - Details Other expeditions
Leong Wai Kenny Seng M - Singapore Climber Singapore - Details Other expeditions
Hee-Jeong Kim F 1991 S Korea Climber S Korea - Details Other expeditions
Jong-Seok Kim M 1989 S Korea Climber S Korea - Details Other expeditions
Seok-Won Kim M 1963 S Korea Climber Seoul, S Korea - Details Other expeditions
Wai Leong Lester Kok M - Singapore Climber Singapore - Details Other expeditions
Hsin Hung Lai M 1981 Singapore Climber Taiwan - Details Other expeditions
Che-Wei Lee M 1987 Taiwan Climber Taiwan - Details Other expeditions
Cheng-Hsiu Lee M 1979 Taiwan Climber Taiwan - Details Other expeditions
On-Kwok Ken Leung M - China Climber Hong Kong - Details Other expeditions
Bridget Mangles F 1961 Australia Non-Climber Kelso, QLD, Australiz Civil servant Details Other expeditions
Mark John (Mango) Mangles M 1960 Australia Climber Kelso, QLD, Australia IT Manager Details Other expeditions
Naresh Maharjan M 1974 Nepal Climber Lalitpur, Kathmandu Scouts instructor Details Other expeditions
Lin Ping Sophia Ng F - Singapore Climber Singapore - Details Other expeditions
Yeon-Soo Park M 1966 S Korea Climber S Korea - Details Other expeditions
Soon-Nam Pyo M 1953 S Korea Climber S Korea - Details Other expeditions
Sim Seng Amos Chye M 1965 Singapore Leader Singapore - Details Other expeditions
Zhong Hao Wesley Tay M - Singapore Climber Singapore - Details Other expeditions
Bayu Tresna M - Indonesia Climber Indonesia - Details Other expeditions
Hui-Yu Tsai M 1976 Taiwan Climber Taiwan - Details Other expeditions
Ko-Hon Wong M - S Korea Climber S Korea - Details Other expeditions
Yew Hoong Wong M - Malaysia Climber Malaysia - Details Other expeditions
Jin-Ju Wu F 1991 Taiwan Climber Taiwan - Details Other expeditions
Bal Bahadur Lopchan M 1974 Nepal H-A Worker Terang-7, Rasuwa - Details Other expeditions
Bag Tamang M 1976 Nepal H-A Worker Solukhumbu - Details Other expeditions
Karma Gyalzen (Karma Gyalgen) Sherpa M 1988 Nepal H-A Worker Charwo, Sotang, Solukhumbu - Details Other expeditions
Lama Babu Sherpa M - Nepal H-A Worker Charwo, Sotang, Solukhumbu - Details Other expeditions
Phurba Pasang Sherpa M 1958 Nepal Sirdar Charwo, Sotang, Solukhumbu - Details Other expeditions
Temba Sherpa M 1977 Nepal H-A Worker Sotang-6, Solukhumbu - Details Other expeditions
Ngawang Sherpa M 1980 Nepal H-A Worker Charwo, Sotang-6, Solukhumbu - Details Other expeditions

References

1 recorded references.

Expedition ID Journal Author Title Publisher Citation Yak 94
URMA07301 - - http://www.explorehimalaya.com/blog/baden-powell-peak-in-langtang-region-report/ - - -