Pasang Dawa Lama

Pasang Dawa Lama

Pasang Dawa Lama (* 1912 , † 15. September 1982 in Darjeeling ) than climbers one of the first ascent of Cho Oyu , high altitude porters , Sirdar and member of the people of the Sherpa .

Pasang Dawa Lama, who, alongside Tenzing Norgay , Ang Tharkey and Gyalzen Norbu, was the most prominent Sherpa of the 20th century, was originally supposed to be a Buddhist Lama , but he became a high porter and mountaineer. In 1937 he climbed the 7314 m high Chomolhari with the Englishman Freddie Spencer Chapman . Two years later, on June 19, 1939, he and Fritz Wiessner almost reached the summit of K2 , but because of the falling night Pasang refused to go any further.

In 1953, Pasang crossed western Nepal for the first time together with Herbert Tichy and two other Sherpas, climbing Pasang Peak in the Patrasi Himal and three 6000s for the first time. On June 1, 1954, he reached an altitude of 7900 m on Dhaulagiri with an Argentine expedition . On October 19, 1954, he succeeded with Herbert Tichy and the Tyrolean Sepp Jöchler the first ascent of the 8188 m high Cho Oyu . Shortly beforehand, Pasang enabled the expedition to be a success by covering a difference in altitude of 4800 m with a transport of provisions within two and a half days. He took part in the successful Swiss Himalayan expedition in 1956 as a Sirdar. As a member of an Indian expedition, Pasang climbed Cho Oyu a second time in 1958, and in 1959 took part in an unsuccessful attempt to climb Dhaulagiri under the direction of Fritz Moravec . Pasang and Karl Prein had to turn back on May 27, 1959 after several attempts at an altitude of 7800 m due to a storm.

literature

• F. Spencer Chapman, Helvellyn to Himalaya. Including an account of the first ascent of Chomolhari, London, The Travel Book Club, 1941
• Herbert Tichy, Land of Nameless Mountains, Vienna, Ullstein 1954
• Herbert Tichy, Cho Oyu - Grace of the Gods, Vienna, Ullstein 1955
• Fritz Moravec, Dhaulagiri. Mountain without mercy, Vienna, Austria. Federal publisher 1960
• Herbert Tichy, What I learned from Asia, Ways to Live Happily in Wisdom, Vienna, Orac 1984

Web links

• Photos by Pasang Dawa Lama (Dhaulagiri Expedition 1955 and with Gerd Mehl 1959)
• Photos of Pasang Dawa Lama on the first ascent of Cho Oyu ( Memento from November 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive )