Norton Couloir
The Norton Couloir , also known as the Great Couloir or Great Couloir , is a steep gorge high up on the north side of Mount Everest in Tibet , which delimits the summit pyramid to the east and extends up to approx. 150 m below the summit.
The equivalent to the west of the summit is the Hornbein Couloir .
| Great Couloir or Norton Couloir | |
| Normal route, in large parts the Mallory Route 1924, with high camps at approx. 7700 and 8300 m, today's 8300 camp a little more to the west (2 triangles) | |
| Messner Traverse 1980; Norton traversed the north face between the light blue and green lines in 1924 | |
| Ⓑ | Point on the western edge of the couloir that Edward Felix Norton came to in 1924 |
Naming
The steep gorge got its name from the leading participant of the English expedition of 1924, Edward F. Norton , who in an unsuccessful summit attempt on June 4, 1924, reached an altitude of approx. 8,570 meters in this steep valley by endangering the wind Avoided the ridge and traversed the north face to the gorge that has borne his name ever since.
Everest Solo, Reinhold Messner
The Norton Couloir was also the path of one of the greatest alpine successes when Reinhold Messner climbed to the summit in this steep valley in 1980, single-handedly and without , avoiding the ridge that is too dangerous for a solo climber - and especially to bypass the Second Step additional oxygen. The almost successful increase by Edward F. Norton in 1924 had inspired Messner to make this attempt: Norton had not used any additional oxygen either.
Further climbs
In 1984 an Australian expedition succeeded in ascending a new route. From the main arm of the Rongpu Glacier they climbed directly into the north face and set up their third high camp at the entrance to the couloir at 7,500 m. From another camp at 8,150 m, Tim Macartney-Snape and Greg Mortimer were the first Australians to reach the summit on October 2nd without additional oxygen.
In 2001, the Frenchman Marco Siffredi was the first person to descend on a snowboard from the summit of Mount Everest via Norton-Couloir to the advanced base camp . A year later he had an accident while trying to ski down the Hornbein-Couloir from the summit . His body was missing.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bartram, Geoffrey: Everest via the Great Couloir. In: AAJO 1985. p. 338 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Marco Siffredi First Ever to Board Everest . Everest News. 2001. Retrieved March 22, 2007.
- ^ A b Sarah Smith: Everest Snowboarder Vanishes On Second Try , National Geographic Adventure. September 27, 2002. Retrieved March 22, 2007.
literature
- Tom Holzel, Audrey Salkeld: In the Death Zone - The Secret of George Mallory; Goldmann, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-442-15076-0
- Conrad Anker, David Roberts: Lost on Mount Everest - On the trail of George Mallory's secret; Heyne, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-453-17711-8
- Reinhold Messner: Everest Solo; Fischer, Frankfurt 2001 - ISBN 3-596-15092-2