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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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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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Nanga Parbat Winter Expedition – Video Dispatch 5

In this video dispatch, The North Face Alpinists; Simone Moro and Denis Urubko face bad weather conditions that stalls the planned summit push. The conditions are getting worse and the boys are getting even more anxious after over one month in basecamp.

Athletes: Simone Moro/ Denis Urubko
Video: Matteo Zanga / The North Facepixelstats trackingpixel

Discussion

5 Responses to “Nanga Parbat Winter Expedition – Video Dispatch 5”

  1. Soldiers of fortune! One council from Siberia: it`s necessery “to break weather”. There must be Den to know that! ;)

    Good luck!

    Posted by rudolf | February 10, 2012, 12:30 pm
  2. Dear Simone and Denis,

    I have been watching your progress from the begining. I have sent my wishes after your press conference with Messner. To be honest, I was worry about your safe on Kinshofer route without the fixed rope. I remember this “path” because today is 15th anniversary of my summit attack. The next days we were able to reach the foot of Diamir Face. I can not imagine doing it without fixed ropes.

    You have not good time during the expedition, especially you have lost your friends…

    The Nanga Parbat gave us the respect lesson too. We have lost the higher camps three times,… my partner and me got frostbites.

    Good luck on your new route! Be carefull. I hope you will do IT!

    Posted by Trzmiel Zbigniew | February 11, 2012, 10:56 am
    • Thank you so much people for telling world “How beautiful Pakistan is”… I have never visited these place, but planning to go BIAL CAMP (BASE CAMP) of Nanga Parbat from Fairy Meadows side :)

      Posted by Saqib Ghafoor | March 9, 2012, 8:01 pm
  3. ilike urs vedios and i like also ice tekking and climbing

    Posted by meeesam ali | February 13, 2012, 6:44 am
  4. Go go go guys ! We are all with you :)

    Posted by Josue | February 13, 2012, 6:52 am

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