It is confirmed, Cho Oyu is open to foreign expeditions on the normal route in Tibet. But climbers will need to stick to some strict rules, leaving much of the sense of adventure behind in the name of ...

At 8,188m, Cho Oyu is the sixth-highest mountain in the world. Located 20km west of Everest, it sits astride the border of Tibet and Nepal. We already wrote a brief climbing history of the mountain, ...

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Nepali climber Gelje Sherpa, 29, is proceeding with a wintertime ascent of 26,864-foot Cho Oyu, which straddles the China-Nepal border. While most expeditions on the mountain start in Tibet, Gelje ...

Nepali climber Gelje Sherpa, 29, is proceeding with a wintertime ascent of 26,864-foot Cho Oyu, which straddles the China-Nepal border. While most expeditions on the mountain start in Tibet, Gelje ...

Pummeled by gastric illness and facing an incoming bad weather front, Ueli Steck and Don Bowie pulled off an ascent of Cho Oyu (8,201m) last week, knocking off the sixth-highest peak on Earth and ...

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Adrian Ballinger and Emily Harrington training prior to climbing Cho Oyu in Tibet, at 8188m the sixth highest mountain in the world. © Louder than 11 Planetmountain ...

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BEIJING, Oct 6 (Reuters) - China has set up weather stations on Cho Oyu, the sixth highest mountain in the world on Tibet's border with Nepal, expanding a series of high-altitude meteorological gauges ...