Chumbu | |
Elevation M: | 6859 |
Elevation Ref: | [1] |
Prominence M: | 541 |
Range: | Mahalangur Himal, Himalayas |
Location: | Solukhumbu District, Sagarmatha Zone, Nepal |
Map: | Nepal Province1#Nepal#China Tibet |
Map Size: | 260 |
Label Position: | right |
Coordinates: | 28.0136°N 86.7881°W |
First Ascent: | November 3, 2022: Czech team, led by Piolet d’Or winner Zdenek Hak summited the unclimbed Chumbu [2] |
Chumbu is a mountain in the Nepal Himalayas near the border of the Tibet Autonomous Region of China. It falls under Eastern Development Region Solukhumbu Nepal.
On November 3, 2022 a Czech team, led by Piolet d'Or winner Zdenek Hak summited the unclimbed Chumbu peak for the first time accompanied by Radek Groh, Jaroslav Bánsky and Petr Kejklíček. A fifth member, Juraj Koren of Slovakia, planned to paraglide from the summit but was fallen ill by dengue and could not start the climb. It was previously attempted by a Korean team and French teams. The French climbed the southwest pillar in 2016 but didn't reach the main Summit [3]