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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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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 & Urubko Retrace Tracks as Acclimatization Tracks Are Now Covered by Heavy Snow

Category As it happens ⋅ February 8, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

Nanga Parbat Base Camp, 4230mt above sea level, -17°C

The persistent snow conditions have left the boys faced with a potential complete restart of the whole process as all the tracks they have made in the acclimatization phase and the entire mountain is now covered by heavy snow.

The updates from basecamp today read:

” The landscape all covered in snow, even though today the sun finally came out. Our track towards camp 1 was buried in snow once again, so we lent the Polish team our snowshoes so they could go up there to check out the situation and recover their gear. One of the three Polish, Lukas, wants to bring everything back down. The other two still were not sure if they wanted to try going up a little more from the 5500mt they have reached. Lukas has arrived now as I write, he is closing his adventure on the Nanga Parbat for this year. His friends will come down tomorrow, which should be the last day of good weather. In fact, the forecast is for another week of snowing. If this should be the case then the mountain would be full of snow and we would have to start everything from scratch.

Today we tried to keep in exercise by re-tracing the track down towards Kutgully and coming back to Base Camp. Around 4 hours of workout to keep muscles and lungs working. In Kutgully we found fresh tracks of someone (surely a local, maybe a hunter). So the track is open in the entire valley.

When we came back we did some maintenance work to the heli landing area. We always keep it ready in case of emergencies. Now we are waiting for Karl Gabl’s forecast hoping it won’t be as terrible as it seems..”

Story: Simone Moro / Denis Urubko
Photos: Matteo Zanga
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5 Responses to “Moro & Urubko Retrace Tracks as Acclimatization Tracks Are Now Covered by Heavy Snow”

  1. i wish them great weather, full energy ,safe and yet another historical summit!

    Posted by Mirza Ali | February 8, 2012, 11:29 pm
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  2. ¡Force muchachos! go go no se vengan de alli con las manos vacias, force Simone, Force Denis…cuidense mucho

    Posted by Julio Medina | February 9, 2012, 4:53 am
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  3. Hey guys hope you get a break soon!!
    Good luck and stay safe

    Posted by Tony | February 9, 2012, 7:49 am
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  4. In any case the main purpose-to come back. “Nothing Else Matters”(с)

    Posted by rudolf | February 9, 2012, 10:31 am
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  5. Forza Simone lo Zeta Club fa il tifo per la tua impresa!

    Posted by Cottu | February 9, 2012, 12:26 pm
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