Manaslu, 8,163 m
Sheet 11 of 11Stage 2030
- Range:
- Mansiri Himal
- Coordinates:
- 28.5500° N, 84.5597° E
Camp 4Night, 7,400 mCamp 3Night, 6,800 mCamp 2Night, 6,400 mCamp 1Night, 5,700 mBase campNight, 4,800 mSamagaonVillage, 3,530 mManaslu8163
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From Samagaon, where the route starts, in October 2025. The dotted line is the normal route, schematic; camps move from year to year and are placed approximately.
The climb, to scale
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Manaslu
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Camp 4
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Camp 3
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Camp 2
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Camp 1
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Base camp
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Samagaon
How hard
- The route’s grade
- Fixed-rope expedition
- For me
- Eight thousand
- Mountain days
- 20–26
- Inside a 33–43 day expedition
- Biggest day
- +763 m
- About 8 h up and back
- Season
- Sep–Oct
- Endurance
- Altitude
- Technical
- Exposure
Only after Himlung Himal or Baruntse. The climbing is not much harder than a 7,000 m peak, but it means a month above 4,800 m and a summit day that starts 4.7 km above my Olympus high point. Easier after Himlung Himal or Baruntse.
- High-altitude boots
- Crampons
- Ice axe
- Harness & rope
- Ascender
- Oxygen
- Tent
Why it is in the plan
From the roadmap: 2030, first 8,000 m. Milestone: The first 8,000-metre summit.
- The first 8,000-metre summit.
- By now the experience should stack up: 4,000 m alpine summits, glacier travel, rock and mixed climbing, fixed ropes and the jumar, crevasse rescue, 6,000 m and 7,000 m, several high camps, an acclimatisation strategy, expedition pacing, and decisions under fatigue and hypoxia.
What it adds
- Technical ability
- Altitude experience
- Expedition experience
- Endurance
- Mountain judgment
- Risk management
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