Cholatse

• 1996 North Face – First ascent by a French team (Boris Badaroux, Philippe Batoux, Marc Challamel, Christophe Mora, Paul Robach (leader)). The climb took three days, the route (IV+, 90°, 1600m) started at the center of the north face, with sharp turns to the right at the beginning, then left at the middle and finally taking a turn to the right to join the northwest ridge that led the team to the summit.
• 2005 North Face – first ascent in winter by Korean team (Park Jung-hun, Choi Gang-sik), 16 January 2005.
• 2005 North Face – first solo ascent, by Ueli Steck, 15 April 2005.
• 2005 Southwest Ridge – summit reached by Kevin Thaw, Conrad Anker, Kris Erickson, John Griber and Abby Watkins on 12 May 2005.{{cite web |title=The Himalayan Cataract Project team Summits Cholatse! |work=MountEverest.net |publisher=ExplorersWeb |date=12 May 2005 |url=http://www.mounteverest.net/story/TheHimalayanCataractProjectteamSummitsCholatseMay122005.shtml |access-date=1 September 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011182031/http://www.mounteverest.net/story/TheHimalayanCataractProjectteamSummitsCholatseMay122005.shtml |archive-date=11 October 2008 |url-status=dead }}
• 2010 North Face (new variant) – A team (Galya Cibitoke, Alexander Gukov, Sergei Kondrashkin, Viktor Koval, and Valery Shamalo) from St. Petersburg, Russia, made an ascent of a new variant of the north face at the end of the calendar winter. The route ascended a huge rock buttress on the right of the French route of 1996, which it joined at ca.5,900m. The route's difficulty was Russian 6B, VI+, A2, 80°, 1,600m.
• 2021 North Face left flank – Five members from an eight-member French expedition opened a new route on the left flank of Cholatse's north face/northeast face. After five days of climbing (25–29 October), the French reached the top. The route was named Brothers In Arms (ED, VI, M5+, WI5, 1,600m) and was dedicated to three of their colleagues (Thomas Arfi , Gabriel Miloche and Louis Pachoud) who went missing after an avalanche on Mingbo Eiger (6,070m) southeast of Ama Dablam on 26 October.

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{{cite web |last=Benavides |first=Angela |title=The French Team Wraps Up in the Khumbu — Two New Routes, Three Lost Friends |publisher=Explorers Web |date=2021 |url=https://explorersweb.com/the-french-team-wraps-up-in-the-khumbu-two-new-routes-three-lost-friends/ |access-date=28 November 2021 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20230906174358/https://explorersweb.com/the-french-team-wraps-up-in-the-khumbu-two-new-routes-three-lost-friends/ |archive-date=6 September 2023 }}

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