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{{short description|Mountain in Khumbu, Nepal}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2024}}
{{Infobox mountain
| name = Cholatse
| photo = Cholatse Peak, Nepal, Himalayas.jpg
| photo_caption = Cholatse from the east
| elevation_m = 6440
| elevation_ref = <ref name=peakware/>
| prominence_m =726
| prominence_ref= 
| range = [[Himalaya|Khumbu Himal]]
| location = [[Khumbu]], Nepal
| map = Nepal
| map_caption = Location in Nepal
| map_size = 
| label_position = left
| coordinates = {{Wikidatacoord|Q389456|type:mountain_region:NP_scale:100000|display=inline,title}}
| coordinates_ref = 
| first_ascent = 1982 by Vern Clevenger, Galen Rowell, John Roskelley, Bill O'Conner, and Peter Hackett
| easiest_route = glacier/snow/ice climb
}}

'''Cholatse''' ({{langx|ne|चोलात्से}}), also known as '''Jobo Lhaptshan''', is a mountain in the [[Khumbu]] region of the Nepalese [[Himalaya]]. Cholatse is connected to [[Taboche]] (6,501m) by a long ridge, with the Chola [[glacier]] descending from the mountain's east face. The north and east faces of Cholatse can be seen from [[Dughla]], on the trail to [[Mount Everest]] base camp.<ref>{{cite book |title=Everest: A Trekker's Guide: Base Camp, Kala Patthar, Gokyo Ri. Trekking routes in Nepal and Tibet |first=Radek|last=Kucharski |publisher=Cicerone Press Limited |year=2023 |isbn=978-1-78362-962-6 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UjTZEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT222 }}</ref>

There is a lake just below this pass to the east, and in Tibetan 'cho' is lake, 'la' is pass, and 'tse' is peak so Cholatse means literally "lake pass peak".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.summitpost.org/cholatse/215085 |title=Cholatse |website=summitpost.org |access-date=10 May 2013 |archive-date=8 March 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140308223039/http://www.summitpost.org/cholatse/215085 |url-status=live }}</ref>
Cholatse was first climbed via the southwest ridge on 22 April 1982, by [[Vern Clevenger]], [[Galen Rowell]], [[John Roskelley]], [[Bill O'Connor (mountaineer and writer)|Bill O'Connor]] and Peter Hackett.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ObC-AgAAQBAJ&pg=PT598 |page=598 |title=Himalaya: The Exploration and Conquest of the Greatest Mountains on Earth |first=Philip |last=Parker |publisher=Anova Books |year=2012 |isbn=978-1-84486-238-2 }}</ref> The mountain's north face was first climbed in 1984.

==Notable ascents==
* 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.<ref name="Robach1996" />
* 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.<ref name=MacDonald2005/>
* 2005 ''Southwest Ridge'' – summit reached by [[Kevin Thaw]], [[Conrad Anker]], Kris Erickson, John Griber and Abby Watkins on 12 May 2005.<ref>{{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 }}</ref>
* 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.<ref name=aaj_2011/>
* 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.<ref name=Benavides2021/>

==Gallery==
<div style="max-width: 500px;">
<gallery mode="slideshow">
File:Cholatse (left) and Arakam Tse (right).jpg|Cholatse (left) and [[Arakam Tse]] (right)
File:Himalayas, Cholatse, Nepal.jpg|Cholatse from Cho La Pass
File:Cholatse's normal route.jpg|The icefall below the headwall on the normal route (southwest-west ridge) during winter
File:Cholatse from the north.jpg|North face of Cholatse seen from Lobuche East. (1) French Route (Badaroux-Batoux-Challamel-Mora-Robach, 1995). The dotted line shows the Korean variations during the first winter ascent (Park Jung-hun-Chai Kang-sik, 2005). (2) 2010 Russian Route. (Credit:Joel Kauffman)
File:Cholatse's 2021 north face route.jpg|''"Brothers In Arms"'' route
File:Mt.cholatse-and-cholo-lake.jpg|Cholatse (left) and Arakam Tse (right)
</gallery>
</div>

==References==
{{Reflist|refs=
<ref name=aaj_2011>
  {{cite aaj | article_id=12201132802 | title=Cholatse (6,440m) North Face, Calendar Winter Ascent, Russian Route
  | year=2011 | first=Anna  | last=Piunova | volume=53 | issue=85 | access-date=2025-08-30}}</ref>
<ref name=MacDonald2005>
 {{cite web |last=MacDonald |first=Dougald |title=Solo on Cholatse and Tawoche |work=Climbing.com Hot Flashes |publisher=Climbing magazine |date=13 July 2005 |url=http://www.climbing.com/news/hotflashes/uelisteckcumul/ |access-date=1 September 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090228061927/http://www.climbing.com/news/hotflashes/uelisteckcumul/ |archive-date=28 February 2009 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
<ref name=peakware>
 {{cite peakware |id=941 |name=Cholatse |access-date=14 April 2015 }}</ref>
<ref name=Robach1996>
  {{cite web |last=Robach |first=Paul |title=Cholatse North Face |publisher=French Mountaineering Federation |date=1996 |url=http://publications.americanalpineclub.org/articles/12199628103/Asia-Nepal-Cholatse-North-Face |access-date=28 November 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230816125530/https://aac-publications.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/aaj/1996/PDF/AAJ_1996_38_70_281c.pdf |archive-date=16 August 2023 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
<ref name=Benavides2021>
  {{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/ <!-- that one shows comments; alt: https://web.archive.org/web/20230328154049/https://explorersweb.com/the-french-team-wraps-up-in-the-khumbu-two-new-routes-three-lost-friends/--> |archive-date=6 September 2023 }}</ref>
}}

[[Category:Mountains of Koshi Province]]
[[Category:Six-thousanders of the Himalayas]]


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