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Most media reports incorrectly state that this team was attempting Ganesh VII, not Ganesh 5.


French expedition on Ganesh V - Autumn 2006

The team, led by Stefan Cieslar, had a permit for Paldor, a trekking peak north of Kathmandu, but they made no attempt to climb it. They dismissed their Sherpas when they reached Paldor's east side and continued northward to Ganesh V, which is across the border in Tibet. Their attempt on Ganesh V was unauthorized; the mountain is not on the Nepalese government's list of permitted peaks.

According to their log, which was found at base camp, they placed this base camp on 24 Oct at 4500m at Khola Kharka near the Bharangge Khola. Their next camp, which they called temporary camp, was made on the 25th slightly below 5000m in the middle of the Sanjung Glacier, and their final camp was pitched the next day at 5500m on a flat snowfield in a rocky area.

Their log said that from this last camp they were going for the summit on the 27th. Whether they reached the top is not known. All four members were hit by an avalanche triggered by a falling serac; their bodies were not found by searchers in November.


Remains of Missing French Mountaineers found on Ganesh Himal - NepalNews.com, 17 July 2007

Remains of four French mountaineers, who went missing while climbing the 5896m Mt. Paldor in November last year, have been found.

According to Ang Tshering Sherpa, president of Nepal Mountaineering Association (NMA), the remains of the French climbers, identified as Stefan Cieslar, Jean-Baptiste Moreau, Raphael Perrissin and Vincent Villedieu, were found ten days earlier. They are believed to have lost their lives in avalanche.

“Either they were trying to illegally scale Ganesh Himal (they had permission for Mt. Paldor only) or they lacked orientation,” Sherpa told NepalNews, explaining about the discovery of the body parts on Ganesh Himal, which is 7200m tall.

All four were experienced climbers. Mt. Paldor, described by mountaineers as a "trekking peak," is the easiest peak in Nepal.

Body parts of two climbers and some belongings of other two were found during the search and rescue mission involving French experts and NMA instructors.

The dead mountaineers were cremated at the base camp of Mt. Paldor, Sherpa informed. Monuments of the deceased were also built near the cremation site.


Remains of Missing French Climbers Found in Nepal - Times of India, 18 Jul 2007

LYON (FRANCE): A search team has found the remains of only two of the four French climbers who disappeared while climbing on the border of Nepal and Tibet last year, the head of the search has said, refuting claims that all four had been found.

"All the bodies have not been found, only two have," Jean Coudray said in a telephone interview.

Mountaineering officials in Kathmandu had said earlier Tuesday that a search team had discovered all four bodies.

Coudray, who was leading a group of Nepalese mountain guides when they discovered the remains last Wednesday, said "the bodies were in bad shape after a fall of more than 1000m (305 feet)," adding that he had been unable to identify them.

"They were found on the Nepalese side of the mountain," he said, denying the Nepali Mountaineering Association's claims that the four had illegally crossed over to Tibet.

"There is an artistic haze around the position of the border, but according to my maps they were on the Nepalese side of the mountain, he insisted.

"We found them in an area that was completely different from what we had expected, which leads us to believe that the four victims fell when they were very near the summit and that the other bodies are in the same area, but under large quantities of snow and ice," Coudray said, pointing out that avalanches were common in the sector.

Aged between 28 and 36 at the time of their deaths, the four were all experienced climbers and one of the party was a professional mountain guide.