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THE MOUNTAIN

Nanga Parbat is the ninth highest mountain on Earth, the second highest mountain in Pakistan with a summit elevation of 8,125 meters.
Nanga Parbat means "Naked Mountain" and it's also called the "Killer Mountain", Nanga Parbat was known to be one of the deadliest of the eight-thousand meter mountains; It is a dramatic peak that rises far above its surrounding terrain, and no one has ever reached the summit in Winter.

NANGA PARBAT CLIMBING HISTORY:
  • - 1895 First attempt (A. Mummery)
  • - 1953 Nanga Parbat first climb along Rakiot Face, Herman Buhl in a solo summit push.
  • - 1962 Second climb on Diamir Face (Kinshofer)
  • - 1970 Reinhold and Gùnter Messner climbed the Rupal face and descent the Diamir face
  • - 1978 Solo climb of a new route along the Diamir face (Reinhold Messner)
  • - 2005 New route in alpine style Rupal face (S.House e V. Anderson)
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THE EXPEDITION

After their first winter ascents of Gasherbrum II, The North Face® Expedition Team is getting ready for the next project: the first winter ascent of Nanga Parbat 8125 meters.
This Expedition will feature only Simone Moro and Denis Urubko without Cory Richards; the third of the trio on the last GII winter ascent.

The aim of the expedition is to realize the first winter ascent of Nagna Parbat 8125 meters, a mountain also known with the name of "killer mountain" due to the difficulties and the tragedies happened during the attempts to conquer the summit between 1930 and 1953. Also after that years a lot of fatalities involved alpinists of different nationalities on Nanga Parbat.
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Moro and Urubko Reach Nanga Parbat Basecamp 4230mt

Category As it happens ⋅ January 3, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

“NANGA PARBAT BASE CAMP, 4230mt above sea level, -15°C

We finally reached base camp, now we won’t have to move all our equipment anymore, which we did up to now in a caravan of 61 porters. Today the fastest porters arrived in 2 hours, the last in 3. We paid them, and tipped them because they worked really well. Some of them were not the same porters as the first days because porters “sub-let” their work during the way up. So each day some men gave their cargo to other men, usually from the villages we crossed. Today I noticed some porters weren’t wearing the shoes I gave them on the first day.. they were walking with their feet wrapped in cloths.. in the snow!

After getting their pay all the porters left except two of them, who decided they wanted to stay so they could get a warm meal and extra money.

In october I paid some porters asking them to come here and build four walls with rocks within which we could mount our tent. The walls were here today, and they were built greatly. These people are amazing.”

Tomorrow and the day after we will stay in base camp so we will finish setting it. The generator and the modem work, and we now have light in the tent we use as kitchen.

Story by- Simone Moro
Photography- Matteo Zanga pixelstats trackingpixel

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13 Responses to “Moro and Urubko Reach Nanga Parbat Basecamp 4230mt”

  1. thank you simone for the porter photographs, i like the way they strap north face gear with small rope and the islamic style clothing and culture these people have

    Posted by ian robertson | January 3, 2012, 5:44 pm
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  2. Excellent and original updates with photos and texts that make you live pleasantly real history of the expedition!

    Good luck, we will continue to follow you!

    Posted by Matteo | January 3, 2012, 6:00 pm
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  3. Wow, porters with no shoes walking in the snow at those temps! Gives a whole new meaning to the word tough!

    Posted by Domenic Serrone | January 3, 2012, 6:20 pm
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  4. Thank you guys for great pictures and good stories.

    Fascinating to follow you!

    Keep on posting!

    Good luck!

    Posted by Follower | January 3, 2012, 6:21 pm
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  5. Good luck! I will continue to follow your posts!

    Posted by Y. | January 4, 2012, 6:50 am
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  6. Thank you for the story Simone and photographs Matteo.

    Good luck.

    Mick

    Posted by Mick Ryan | January 5, 2012, 10:44 am
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  7. Great job, guys. Let the fun begin! Wish I was there, too.

    Posted by Mike Long | January 6, 2012, 8:06 am
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  8. Amazing to see and get the live updates. very nice photography work.

    Posted by Nauman Malik | January 6, 2012, 12:24 pm
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  9. Sto seguendo con passione la vostra straordinaria impresa. Lo staff di esedra editrice vi è vicino con tutto il calore (aihmé, poco nient…)
    Federico

    Posted by federico | January 9, 2012, 4:03 pm
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  1. [...] While the boys are up at camp 3, the Matteo (The Team Photographer) and the Pakistan crew are at base camp. [...]
    Winter expedition to Nanga Parbat 2011/2012: Simone and Urubko Acclimatize at Camp 3 – 6600m. « Himalman’s Weblog - January 27, 2012

  2. [...] While the boys are up at camp 3, the Matteo (The Team Photographer) and the Pakistan crew are at base camp. [...]
    Winter expedition to Nanga Parbat 2011/2012: Simone and Urubko Acclimatize at Camp 3 – 6600m. « My Himalayas - January 28, 2012

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