His companion P.R.Oliver stopped exhausted at 23000'.[1][3] 1950: An Anglo-Swiss expedition ascends Abi Gamin from its North East ridge. 1951: Mukut Parbat is climbed via the steep northwest ridge by a crack New Zealand team that included Earle Riddiford (leader), Edmund Hillary, George Lowe, Edmund Cotter and Pasang Dawa Lama.