Cho Oyu — Local services in Benxung

Genesis 26 19 And Isaac's servants digged in the valley, and found there a well of springing water.

20 And the herdmen of Gerar did strive with Isaac's herdmen, saying, The water is ours: and he called the name of the well Esek; because they strove with him.

21 And they digged another well, and strove for that also: and he called the name of it Sitnah.

22 And he removed from thence, and digged another well; and for that they strove not: and he called the name of it Rehoboth; and he said, For now the Lord hath made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.

23 And he went up from thence to Beersheba.

24 And the Lord appeared unto him the same night, and said, I am the God of Abraham thy father: fear not, for I am with thee, and will bless thee, and multiply thy seed for my servant Abraham's sake.

25 And he builded an altar there, and called upon the name of the Lord, and pitched his tent there: and there Isaac's servants digged a well.

26 Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath one of his friends, and Phichol the chief captain of his army.

27 And Isaac said unto them, Wherefore come ye to me, seeing ye hate me, and have sent me away from you?

28 And they said, We saw certainly that the Lord was with thee: and we said, Let there be now an oath betwixt us, even betwixt us and thee, and let us make a covenant with thee;

29 That thou wilt do us no hurt, as we have not touched thee, and as we have done unto thee nothing but good, and have sent thee away in peace: thou art now the blessed of the Lord.

30 And he made them a feast, and they did eat and drink.

31 And they rose up betimes in the morning, and sware one to another: and Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace.

32 And it came to pass the same day, that Isaac's servants came, and told him concerning the well which they had digged, and said unto him, We have found water.

33 And he called it Shebah: therefore the name of the city is Beersheba unto this day.

34 And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite:

35 Which were a grief of mind unto Isaac...

Cho Oyu (Nepali: चोयु; Tibetan: ཇོ་བོ་དབུ་ཡ; Chinese: 卓奥友峰) is the sixth-highest mountain in the world at 8,188 metres (26,864 ft) above sea level. Cho Oyu means "Turquoise Goddess" in Tibetan.[3] The mountain is the westernmost major peak of the Khumbu sub-section of the Mahalangur Himalaya 20 km west of Mount Everest. The mountain stands on the China–Nepal border, between the Tibet Autonomous Region and Koshi Province.

Just a few kilometres west of Cho Oyu is Nangpa La (5,716m/18,753 ft), a glaciated pass that serves as the main trading route between the Tibetans and the Khumbu's Sherpas. This pass separates the Khumbu and Rolwaling Himalayas. Due to its proximity to this pass and the generally moderate slopes of the standard northwest ridge route, Cho Oyu is considered the easiest 8,000 metre peak to climb.[4] It is a popular objective for professionally guided parties.

Height Cho Oyu's height was originally measured at 26,750 feet (8,150 m) and at the time of the first ascent it was considered the 7th highest mountain on earth, after Dhaulagiri at 8,167 metres (26,795 ft) (Manaslu, now 8,156 metres (26,759 ft), was also estimated lower at 26,658 feet (8,125 m)).[5] A 1984 estimate of 8,201 metres (26,906 ft) made it move up to sixth place. New measurements made in 1996 by the Government of Nepal Survey Department and the Finnish Meteorological Institute in preparation for the Nepal Topographic Maps put the height at 8,188 m,[6] one remarkably similar to the 26,867 feet (8,189 m) used by Edmund Hillary in his 1955 book High Adventure.[7]

Climbing history Cho Oyu was first attempted in 1952 by an expedition organised and financed by the Joint Himalayan Committee of Great Britain as preparation for an attempt on Mount Everest the following year. The expedition was led by Eric Shipton and included Edmund Hillary, Tom Bourdillon and George Lowe.[8] A foray by Hillary and Lowe was stopped due to technical difficulties and avalanche danger at an ice cliff above 6,650 m (21,820 ft) and a report of Chinese troops a short distance across the border influenced Shipton to retreat from the mountain rather than continue to attempt...

Cho Oyu is the sixth-highest mountain in the world at 8,188 metres above sea level. Cho Oyu means "Turquoise Goddess" in Tibetan. The mountain is the westernmost major peak of the Khumbu sub-section of the Mahalangur Himalaya 20 km west of Mount Everest. The mountain stands on the China–Nepal border.

*First ascent: 19 October 1954 *Prominence: 2,340 m *Location: Nepal (Province No. 1)–China (Tibet) *Mountain range: Himalayas *First ascenders: Herbert Tichy, Pasang Dawa Lama, Joseph Jöchler *Parent ranges: Mahalangur Himal, Himalayas

Our Cho Oyu expe­di­tion will fly to the ancient cap­i­tal city of Tibet, Lhasa, once home to the 14th Dalai Lama who fled to India in 1959 due to the Chi­nese Inva­sion. While accli­ma­tiz­ing, our group will tour many of the Tibetan Bud­dhist monas­ter­ies and palaces as we jour­ney to Cho Oyu base camp. We will take an alter­na­tive over­land route back to Kath­man­du via Zhangmu.

First sum­mit­ed in 1954 by a small Austrian/​Tibetan expe­di­tion, Cho Oyu is tech­ni­cal­ly eas­i­er than most oth­er ​“8000’ers,” mak­ing it a great first 8000-meter peak for climbers with pre­vi­ous high alti­tude climb­ing expe­ri­ence. We will climb Cho Oyu via the West Ridge/​West Face, which has two short tech­ni­cal sec­tions. Advanced Base Camp (ABC) will be estab­lished at 5800 meters / 19,029 feet, Camp I at 6500 meters / 21,325 feet, Camp II at 7100 meters / 23,294 feet, and Camp III at 7400 meters / 24,278 feet.

The expe­di­tion will start in Kath­man­du, Nepal. We will meet at our Nepal office to get our paper­work togeth­er, orga­nize our gear, and enjoy the local cus­toms & cul­ture of Kath­man­du before fly­ing to Lhasa. We take a spec­tac­u­lar route from Lhasa to the vil­lage of Tin­gri, our final rugged and rur­al vil­lage before Cho Oyu base camp. We spend two nights at base camp before we hire yaks to trans­port our expe­di­tion sup­plies to ABC. On this two day jour­ney we will cross rivers, and hike over rocky moraine before we arrive at ABC, ​“our base camp”...