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    Cho Oyu (Nepali: चोयु; Tibetan: ཇོ་བོ་དབུ་ཡ; Chinese: 卓奥友峰) is the sixth-highest mountain in the world at 8,188 metres (26,864 ft) above sea level. Cho...
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    major Himalayan peaks. These include 21 ascents of Mount Everest, six on Cho Oyu, eight on Manaslu, and one each on Shishapangma[citation needed] and Lhotse...
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    had been 800 successful summits of Makalu and 50 deaths on the mountain. Cho Oyu is the world's sixth-highest mountain at 8,188 meters (26,864 ft) above...
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    His 30 April 1990 ascent of Cho Oyu, which he completed alone in low visibility, is disputed by one observer. Cho Oyu has a broadly flat summit plateau...
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    without the aid of supplementary oxygen. Issues with false summits (e.g. Cho Oyu, Annapurna I, and Dhaulagiri), or separated dual summits (e.g. Shishapangma...
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    The 1952 British expedition to Cho Oyu (26,750 feet (8,150 m)) the Turquoise Goddess was organized by the Joint Himalayan Committee. It had been hoped...
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    although several others tried to help him. Sharp had previously summited Cho Oyu and was noted as being a talented rock climber who seemed to acclimatise...
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    In the winter of 1982–83, Messner attempted the first winter ascent of Cho Oyu. He reached an altitude of about 7,500 m (24,600 feet), when great masses...
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  • skiing and holds the record for the highest ski descent which he made down Cho Oyu mountain. Stammberger disappeared while scouting an expedition of Tirich...
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    Lhotse, the third-highest mountain of the Himalaya Makalu in the Himalaya Cho Oyu in the Himalaya Dhaulagiri in the Himalaya Manaslu in the Himalaya Nanga...
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    and the first woman to ski from over 8000 meters, skiing off the top of Cho Oyu on a monoski. 2000: Davo Karničar† (Slovenia) completed the first top-to-bottom...
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    without supplemental oxygen. In 2014, Pérez completed a solo ascent of Cho Oyu without supplemental oxygen. In 2015, Pérez reached the summit of Broad...
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    Tichy made the first ascent of Cho Oyu on 19 October 1954. Tichy documented the climb in his book Cho Oyu, Cho Oyu: By Favour Of The Gods, published...
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  • and that fall, he summitted and snowboarded his first eight-thousander, Cho Oyu. Siffredi reached the summit of Everest, the world's tallest peak, on 23...
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    with 42 total. In addition to his Everest completions, his totals include Cho-Oyu eight times (2001, 2004, 2006, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2014 and 2016), Lhotse...
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  • Nangpa La between Rolwaling Himal and Cho Oyu, to the Arun River. It includes Mount Everest, Lhotse, Makalu, and Cho Oyu — four of Earth's six highest peaks...
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  • climbing of the 8,201 meters mount Cho Oyu in Himalaya. (The raw material itself was released some months later as Cho Oyu 8201m – Field Recordings from Tibet...
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    Club in London. On 9 March 2006, Klára Poláčková reached the summit of Cho Oyu, climbing with her guide and friend Tashi Tenzing. Klára Poláčková summited...
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    times since 1992 (in both spring and autumn, all via the South Col route), Cho Oyu seven times since 1995, and had also summited Broad Peak (1995), Gasherbrum...
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    expedition to the mountain in 1951 as well as an unsuccessful attempt to climb Cho Oyu in 1952. As part of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition he reached...
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    2016, Staniforth attempted to climb the world's sixth highest mountain Cho Oyu which stands at over 8,000 meters, in preparation for another attempt on...
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  • Arnold) 1994 – Mount Everest 1994 – Lhotse 1994 – K2 1994 – Cho Oyu 1994 – Makalu 1995 – Cho Oyu 1996 – Mount Everest (died on descent) List of 20th-century...
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    (13,120 ft). Such is its vertical relief that despite being closer to Cho Oyu and Mount Everest, it is the only one of the Nepali eight-thousanders whose...
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  • bottled oxygen. In 2024, Anja summited Makalu, Kangchenjunga, Manaslu and Cho Oyu without supplementary oxygen. The following year, she climbed Annapurna...
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    peak in a record time of 10 days. In 1989, Kropp had hopes of climbing Cho Oyu, but he had no permit. Instead, he went to South America and climbed Iliniza...
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    Kyrgyzstan (7134 m), Muztagh Ata (7546 m) and Kuksay Peak (7134 m) in China and Cho Oyu in Tibet (8201 m). Tomas Olsson lived in Chamonix in France, where he worked...
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    Claude Kogan (category Deaths on Cho Oyu)
    she died in October 1959 while leading a women-only expedition to climb Cho Oyu, the sixth-highest mountain in the world, on the China Tibet–Nepal Province...
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  • highest peak on Earth. It is located approximately 6 kilometers NNE of Cho Oyu, the world's 6th highest mountain. Siguang Ri has two significant subpeaks:...
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  • downhill skiing, and became the first Pole to ski Cho Oyu. For his solo ascent and ski descent of Cho Oyu, he was awarded a "Kolosa Award", one of the year's...
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    Marble Wall in winter 2001. In 2002 he summited three peaks: Mount Vinson, Cho Oyu and Everest; summited three peaks: Broad Peak, Elbrus and Kilimanjaro in...
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