Manaslu became very much a Japanese mountaineering property in the 1950s, and was climbed in May 1956 by Toshio Imanishi and Gyalzen Norbu Sherpa, members of an expedition led by Yuko Maki, who set their base camp above Sama beside the Manaslu Glacier. Manaslu North (7157m) was first climbed on October 25, 1964 by Fons Driessen and Jan De Lint from Holland, Hubert Schriebl from Austria, and Sherpas Jila Tsering and Nima Tenzing.