Tomort was reconnoitered or attempted in 1996, 1997, 2000, and 2004, by Chinese and Japanese parties. Its first, and to date only, ascent was in 2005, by a small group from the Alpine Club of the National Defense Academy of Japan, led by Isao Fukura. They described the summit as a table-top ice-snow plateau, with glaciers several kilometers long descending on all sides, which was reached by a crevassed glacier and a 50 degree snow/ice face.