Lhotse (3)

Timeline[edit]
1955 Attempt by the International Himalayan Expedition.
1956 First ascent of the main summit: Fritz Luchsinger and Ernst Reiss.
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1965 First attempt on Lhotse Shar by a Japanese expedition - reached 8,100m.
1970 First ascent of Lhotse Shar by Austrian expedition, Sepp Mayerl, Rolf Walter
1979 Second ascent of the main summit by Jerzy Kukuczka.
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1981 April 30 Third ascent of the main summit by Hristo Prodanov, Bulgaria.
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1981 October 16 Second ascent of Lhotse Shar Switzerland, Colin Molines
1984 May 20 The first ascent of the south face of the mountain finished on Lhotse
Shar Czechoslovakia
1986 Ascent by Reinhold Messner, thus becoming the first person to climb all of the Fourteen
Eight-Thousanders.
1988 December 31 Krzysztof Wielicki, a Polish climber, completed the first winter ascent of
Lhotse.
1989 October 24 Jerzy Kukuczka perishes while climbing the South Face of Lhotse, when his
secondhand rope breaks.
1990 April 22 Tomo esen makes first solo ascent of South Face of Lhotse. Controversy of his
climb is later raised by USSR Himalayan expedition, claiming that his ascent would be
impossible.
1990 October 16 First ascent of South Face of Lhotse, USSR Himalayan expedition Sergey
Bershov and Gennadiy Karataev.
1994 May 13 Carlos Carsolio got mountaintop solo, introducing a world speed record at 23 h 50
min rise from basecamp to the summit.
1996 Chantal Mauduit becomes the first woman to reach the summit of Lhotse.
2001 First ascent of Lhotse Middle by Russian expedition.
2007 Pemba Doma Sherpa, Nepali mountaineer and two-time summiter of Mt. Everest, falls to
her death from Lhotse at 8000 m
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2011 May 1415, Michael Horst, American guide, summits Mount Everest and Lhotse without
descending below Camp IV (South Col) with less than 21 hours elapsing between the two
summits.
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2011 On May 20, Indian mountaineer Arjun Vajpai became the youngest climber ever to summit
Lhotse, aged 17 years, 11 months and 16 days.
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