Everest’s difficult Lho La Route – the West Ridge – Hornbein Couloir on Mt. Everest. Kobusch took the extreme Lho La up the ...

Base camp occupies a site on the gravel plain below the Rongbuk Glacier at approximately 17,000 feet. Tents are set up on the sandy gravel valley, which carves out a north-south swath in the high ...

While there are many discovered and named climbing routes on Everest, two routes are most commonly climbed: The South Col route starting from Nepal, and the Northeast Ridge Standard ...

From Camp V, follow the standard route to Camp VI up the North Ridge to the traverse onto the North Face. Instead of ascending the slopes between the North Ridge and the rib bisecting the Snow ...

Everest. Kobusch took the extreme Lho La up the West Ridge as opposed to the more established Southeast Ridge route starting from Nepal, or the Northeast Ridge route, starting from Tibet.

Mallory and fellow climber Guy Bullock made it 23,000ft up the mountain via the North Col, on Everest's north ridge, before searing winds forced them to turn back. Their journey proved that there ...

Jost Kobusch on the West Ridge of Mt. Everest / Daniel Hug/terragraphy Iconic Mt. Everest, the highest mountain in the world, stands 29,029 feet. Located in the Himalayas on the Nepal-Tibet border ...

This attempt marks Kobusch’s third winter attempt via the Lho La – the West Ridge – Hornbein Couloir on Mt. Everest. Iconic Mt. Everest, the highest mountain in the world, stands 29,029 feet.

On 27 December 2024 German alpinist Jost Kobusch, currently attempting his extremely ambitious project of climbing the West Ridge of Everest solo and in winter without O2, reached the unprecedented ...