Cho Oyu 2010: Climbing high on steak and kidney pie

November 28, 2010 Trip reports 8000m peaks, acclimatisation, altitude sickness, cho oyu, everest, expedition food, himalayas, jagged globe, kathmandu, lhasa, manaslu, nepal, potala palace, shegar, shigatse, tibet, tibetan mountaineering association 7 Comments

Cho Oyu 2010: Climbing high on steak and kidney pie

The story of Cho Oyu, autumn 2010 While we live in a society which offers us a huge amount of choice over what we do, for the bigger events the wheel of life more often than not turns in a

Reflections on Cho Oyu

October 6, 2010 Expedition dispatches baruntse, cho oyu, kathmandu, lhasa beer, nepal, robert anderson, serap jangbu sherpa, tibet, tibetan mountaineering association 0 Comment

Reflections on Cho Oyu

There’s an old cliche in mountaineering, getting to the top is optional, but getting back down again is mandatory. There are climbers who ignore this simple axiom – and, indeed, there were some of them on Cho Oyu this year