Lobuje East. Our French and Swiss expedition was composed of Denise Hembise, Samyr Lazizi, Bernard Nief, Franco¸is Ryter, Serge Chartoise and me. After an approach of 12 days, we placed Base Camp beside a lake at 5000 meters below the southeast ridge of Lobuje East. The route ascended a snow slope to reach the crest of the southeast ridge where it has two rock bands at 5500 meters. We placed Camp I at 5700 meters. The difficulties began there. There were two steep steps on the summit ridge and there were knife-edged sections. On November 5 Chartoise, Lazizi, Ryter, Sirdar Chowang Rinzi and I reached the summit at 1:30 P.M.

Dominique Hembise, Club Alpin Français