Editing Cho Oyu (section)

==View==
{{Himalaya annotated imagemap|caption=Southern and northern climbing routes as seen from the [[International Space Station]]. (The names on the photo are links to corresponding pages.)|width=600|align=right}}

===Timeline===
[[File:中国地质大学（武汉）登山队登顶卓奥友峰.JPG|thumb|Ascent by a team from [[China University of Geosciences (Wuhan)]] on 2 October 2008]]
*1952 First [[Mount Everest reconnaissance from Nepal#1952 Cho Oyu reconnaissance|reconnaissance of north-west face]] by [[Edmund Hillary]] and party.<ref name=evnews/>
*1954 First ascent by Austrians Joseph Jöchler and [[Herbert Tichy]], and Pasang Dawa Lama (Nepal)<ref name=evnews/>
*1958 Second ascent of the peak, by an [[India]]n expedition. Sherpa Pasang Dawa Lama reaches the peak for the second time. First death on Cho Oyu.<ref name=evnews/>
*1959 Four members are killed in an avalanche during a failed international women's expedition.<ref name=evnews/><ref>{{cite journal | title = Asia, Nepal, Cho Oyu | journal =American Alpine Journal| date=1960|  issn= 0065-6925 | volume =#12 | pages= |  access-date =19 December 2024 |url =http://publications.americanalpineclub.org/articles/12196015601 }}</ref>
*1964 A controversial third ascent by a German expedition as there is no proof of reaching the summit. Two mountaineers die of exhaustion in camp 4 at {{convert|7600|m|ft|-1|abbr=on}}.<ref name=evnews/>
*1978 [[Eduard Koblmueller|Edi Koblmüller]] and Alois Furtner of [[Austria]] summit via the extremely difficult southeast face.<ref name=evnews/>
*1983 [[Reinhold Messner]] succeeds on his fourth attempt,<ref name=evnews/> with [[Hans Kammerlander]] and [[Michael Dacher]].
*1984 Věra Komárková (USA) and Dina Štěrbová (Czechoslovakia) become the first women to climb Cho Oyu. Štěrbová is also the first woman from Czechoslovakia to climb an 8,000er.
*1985 On February 12, [[Polish people|Poles]] [[Maciej Berbeka]] and [[Maciej Pawlikowski]] make the first winter ascent via a new route on the southeast face. It is the only winter ascent on an [[eight-thousander]] made on a new route and the first winter ascent without additional oxygen support. The ascent was repeated three days later by [[Andrzej Heinrich]] and [[Jerzy Kukuczka]], with Kukuczka setting an additional record for climbing two eight-thousanders during the same winter, as he had earlier climbed [[Dhaulagiri]].<ref name=aaj1992>{{cite aaj | title = Cho Oyu's Three-Kilometer-High Face| date= 1986|issn = 0065-6925 | first =Andrzej | last =  Zawada | isbn= 978-0930410278 | volume =28 | issue=60 | pages=6–13 | access-date = 18 May 2024 |article_id=12198600700}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | title = My Vertical World: Climbing the 8000-Metre Peaks | date=1992|  first = Jerzy| last =  Kukuczka    |  isbn =0340534850 |publisher =Hodder & Stoughton | access-date = 8 April 2024 | url =https://books.google.com/books?id=-3ATAQAAIAAJ&q=0340534850}}</ref>
*1988 On November 2, a Slovenian expedition consisting of Iztok Tomazin, Roman Robas, Blaž Jereb, Rado Nadvešnik, Marko Prezelj and Jože Rozman reach the summit via the never before climbed north face.
*1994 On May 13 [[Carlos Carsolio]] sets a world record speed ascent from base camp to summit, ascending in 18 hours and 45 minutes.<ref name=outside_carsolio/>
*1994 First solo ascent via the South West face by Yasushi Yamanoi.<ref name=thebmc/>
*2000 Russian-Finnish expedition of nine climbers summitted the top, but two of them disappeared in the attempt and were presumed dead.<ref name=Russ-Finn/>   
*2004 Second summit by a double amputee ([[Mark Inglis]])<ref name=bbc_2006/>
*2007 Second Indian ascent. Expedition led by Abhilekh Singh Virdi.<ref name=blogspot/>
*2009 [[Clifton Maloney]], husband of [[Carolyn Maloney|US Representative Carolyn Maloney]] and at that time the oldest American to summit an [[eight-thousander]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://thevillager.com/villager_335/cliftonmalonoey71.html|title=Clifton Maloney, 71, died on one of highest peaks|website=thevillager.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161010042556/http://thevillager.com/villager_335/cliftonmalonoey71.html|archive-date=10 October 2016|access-date=2017-11-08}}</ref> died at age 71 after summiting on 25 September. His final words were "I’m the happiest man in the world. I’ve just summited a beautiful mountain."<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://gothamist.com/2009/09/27/rep_carolyn_maloneys_husband_dies_during_mountain_climb.php|title=Rep. Carolyn Maloney's Husband Dies During Mountain Climb - Gothamist|date=2009-10-01|access-date=2017-11-08|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091001141450/http://gothamist.com/2009/09/27/rep_carolyn_maloneys_husband_dies_during_mountain_climb.php|archive-date=2009-10-01}}</ref>
*2011 Dutch climber [[Ronald Naar]] dies after becoming unwell at {{convert|8000|m|ft|-1|abbr=on}}.<ref name=outside_naar/><ref name=dutch_news/>