„We have canceled the Cho Oyu expedition because the weather will not be good for a long time,“ Mingma Dorchi Sherpa, founder of Nepali expedition operator Pioneer Adventure, wrote to me today. His team is already back in Kathmandu.
Yesterday, Thursday, a summit attempt had been abandoned at Camp 3 at 7,200 meters. „We all feel like we are on winter expedition with this cold and wind,“ Gelje Sherpa had described on Instagram the situation on the Nepali south side of the eight-thousander Cho Oyu. The wind had been „insane,“ wrote the 29-year-old Nepalese. „We were in 70kph winds and we knew straight away this was not safe territory.“
„Cho Oyu expedition abandoned“ weiterlesen