The Russians have finished the South Face of Cho Oyu and are now on the summit ridge. The top is now close, but a major ...

Denis Urubko, with his recent new route up the SE Face of Cho Oyu, has climbed all fourteen 8000m summits. Cho Oyu and the south-east face. The red line marks the planned line of ascent which ...

Walter Nones has died on Cho Oyu (8201m), the sixth highest mountain in the world. His death has been confirmed directly by the wife of the Italian alpinist. "Walter had an accident this morning. We ...

KATHMANDU, Feb 27: The Cho Oyu winter summit expedition team led by Gelje Sherpa has decided to leave for a summit push tonight. The team is currently at Camp 2 and will head for the summit to attempt ...

According to the latest report by Chinese authorities, the quake killed nearly 100 people and injured at least 130 more in the frontier areas that climbers usually traverse on the way to Cho Oyu ...

KATHMANDU, Feb 15: A team of Nepali mountaineers who left for the Everest region on January 26 with a mission to introduce a commercial route to the summit of Mt Cho Oyu has successfully fixed lines ...

The infamous 'Yeti scalp' at Khumjung Monastery 1) Everest, Cho Oyu, Lhotse and Makalu are all giants in the Mahalangur range, Mahalangur happens to be Sanskrit for ‘great ape’. 2) Sherpas are ...