This past weekend, on October 7th, Benedikt Boehm and Prakash Sherpa raced to the top of Cho Oyu's summit in 12.35 hours. The team started the journey around midnight on October 6th and made it back ...

The China Tibet Mountaineering Association has decided to keep Shisha Pangma and Cho Oyu closed to foreign expeditions until the fall. International climbers can still attempt Cho Oyu from the highly ...

Too cold, too tired, too dangerous: The Russian team was unable to cross the huge gap on the tricky East Ridge that separated them from the summit of Cho Oyu. In the end, after weeks of work, they ...

One of the season’s mysteries is out of the bag, to the disappointment of those hoping for a bold solo climb tackling a difficult 8,000m face. The single foreigner with a permit to climb Cho Oyu from ...

In an Instagram story posted last week by Nepali mountaineer Gelje Sherpa, the camera follows his teammate Gesman Tamang as he struggles to walk through a thigh-deep snow field somewhere on the lower ...

Simone Moro, the thirty-three year old Italian mountaineer and The North Face Team member, is in the Himalayas once again and already acclimatising for the two 8000m peaks he hopes to climb between ...

Indian mountaineer Bharath Thammineni has achieved a historic milestone by becoming the first Indian climber to summit nine of the world's 14 peaks above 8,000 meters, following his successful ascent ...

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BEIJING, Oct 6 (Reuters) - China has set up weather stations on Cho Oyu, the sixth highest mountain in the world on Tibet's border with Nepal, expanding a series of high-altitude meteorological gauges ...