Pharchamo Peak Climbing 23 Days (6187m.)

The Nepal Mountaineering Association call this peak Parchemuche, a name by which, as far as I can find out, no one else knows it! The peak, which lies due south of the Tesi Lapcha, is unnamed on the Schnider Rolwaling Himal map, but is given a spot height of (6273m/20581ft). The Mandala Lamasangu to9 Everest map calls the peak Parchome, which is quite possibly a spelling mistake. Bath Shipton’s and Gregory’s expedition surveys gave the peal an altitude close to 6318metres(20700ft).

Seen from the pass the mountain is an attractive but straightforward snow peak with a well defined north by north-west ridge rising from the relatively flat, crevassed glacier astride the Tesi Lapche. To the west of the ridge the face forms a uniform snow slope broken by crevasses and small seracs rising from the rocky lower buttresses above the Drolambau Glacier. The mountain had an interesting early history, some of which was outlined in 1955 by Dennis Davis and Phil Boultgee, members of the highly successful Merseyside Himalayan Expedition led by Alf Gregory. As well as climbing nineteen summits in and around the Rolwaling Valley, their explorations took them to the head of the Drolambau, where numerous peaks were climbed, up the Ripimu Glacier and into the Menlung Basin via the Ripimu La. This was the most extensive exploration of the area first entered by Shipton that there has been, using a style of expedition, light weight and free ranging, that alas is no longer possible within the kingdom of Nepal.

23 Days Difficulty   Maximum Altitude : 6187m
DAY 01	Drive to Barhabise (80 Km east from Kathmandu) O/N camp at Suna Khari-1600m (2 hr)
DAY 02	Trek to Dolangsa-2600m (6 hr)
DAY 03	Trek to Bigu Gompa-2600m (6-7 hr)
DAY 04	Trek to Laduk-2000m (7 hr)
DAY 05	Trek to Jagat-1250m (6-7 hr)
DAY 06	Trek to Sime Gaon-2600m (6 hr)
DAY 07	Trek to Dongma Gaon-3600m (6-7 hr)
DAY 08	Trek to Beding-3600m (6 hr)
DAY 09	Trek to Nagaon-3700m (6-7 hr)
DAY 10	Rest day at Nagaon
DAY 11	Trek to Yalung-Ri Base Camp-4200m (4-5 hr)
DAY 12	Climb Yalung Ri-5630m and return trek to Nagaon
DAY 13	Trek to Glacier Kharka-4750m (5-6 hr)
DAY 14	Trek to Tolumba-5036m (5 hr)
DAY 15	Trek to Tashilapcha-5739m (6-7 hr)
DAY 16	Climb to Pharchamo Peak-6273m and return trek to Tashilapcha
DAY 17	Trek to Thanpo-4320m (6 hr)
DAY 18	Trek to Thame-3900m (6-7 hr)
DAY 19	Trek to Namche Bazar-3440m (4 hr)
DAY 20	Rest day at Namche
DAY 21	Trek to Phakding-2600m (6 hr)
DAY 22	Trek ends at Lukla-2865m (3 hr)
DAY 23	Fly from Lukla to Kathmandu

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