1985 On February 12, Maciej Berbeka and Maciej Pawlikowski make the first winter ascent (repeated three days later by Andrzej Heinrich and Jerzy Kukuczka).
Claudine van der Straten-Ponthoz was a pioneering French mountaineer, who died on the 2nd of October 1959 while taking part in a women-only expedition to climb up 26,867-foot Mount Cho Oyu.
The peak, Cho Oyu, in Tibet, is the sixth highest mountain in the world and one of only 14 peaks higher than 8,000 meters.
It is visible from nearby Cho Oyu and its BC (Base Camp) and ABC (Advanced Base Camp), used by mountaineering expeditions.
During the April 2006 Friendship Beyond Borders expedition, Nawang made a partial ascent of the sixth highest peak in the world, Cho Oyu, on the Nepal-Tibet border about 12 miles from Mount Everest.
Having trekked to Mount Everest base camp and reached the summits of a number of notable mountains, including two of the world's fourteen 8,000 meter peaks (Shishapangma and Cho Oyu), she decided to build on her passion for mountaineering and set herself the challenge of achieving the Explorer's Grand Slam.
Margaret Cho | Cho Oyu | Ming Cho Lee | Julia Cho | Seung-Hui Cho | Raymond Cho | Oyu Tolgoi mine | Karen Cho | Yang Cho-cheng | Wee Cho Yaw | Raymond Cho (politician) | Raymond Cho (actor) | Nanboku-chō period | Kong Cho Ha | Kamiya-cho-nishi Station | Kamiya-cho-higashi Station | Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider The Movie: Cho-Den-O Trilogy | John Cho | Cho Man-sik | Cho Kyuhyun | Cho In-Chul | Cho Hae-il | CHO | Arden Cho | Amadeus Cho |
Hamill has guided 72 expeditions to altitudes exceeding 18,000 vertical feet, including 5 on Mt. Everest and 18 in the Himalayas above 8,000m (26,000 ft) (Everest: spring, 2005; spring, 2008; spring, 2009; spring, 2010; spring, 2011; spring, 2012; spring, 2013: Cho Oyu: autumn, 2002; autumn, 2003; autumn, 2004; autumn, 2005; autumn, 2007; autumn, 2008; autumn, 2010; autumn, 2011: Shishapangma: autumn, 2011: Manaslu: autumn, 2012).