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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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As it happens

Persistent Snow – Plans to Depart For the Summit Push Today Goes On Hold

Category As it happens ⋅ February 5, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

Nanga Parbat Base Camp 4230m, -14C, persistent snow.

Yesterday morning and especially yesterday evening the two calls to Karl Gabl left little doubts that the weather would get worse. We were hoping to leave but Gabl is never wrong. It has been snowing for 24 hours straight and it seems like it will go on.

Avalanche danger is very high, so this morning we didn’t move. It would have been a great act of heroic stupidity. Today we will shovel snow and wait. The Polish team came to ask for snowshoes so they could stomp the snow around their camp and open a corridor between theirs and ours. So… The weather report and the Nanga for the moment say no..

Story: Simone Moro/Denis Urubko
Photo: Matteo Zanga

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7 Responses to “Persistent Snow – Plans to Depart For the Summit Push Today Goes On Hold”

  1. best wishes from germany

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    Posted by max weber | February 5, 2012, 10:33 am
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  2. Hello guys, we wish you all the best for your task, weather will be the main source for your achievement let hope that this time also have luck in all like it was last winter, Nanga Parbat has dramatics environment concerning about the weather. Messner New routs has long distance to summit, just give attention. from today the local peoples said in their language (Gup). which means the ice will break and very green signal the lake of ice and Sarac have break

    Posted by Liver Khan | February 5, 2012, 11:39 am
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  3. Estimados Simone y Denis, mi nombre es Aldo Cepeda de Ecuador sur América, soy montañista al igual que ustedes pero apenas y soy un novato, he seguido muy de cerca todos sus últimos proyectos y estoy muy admirado de su fuerza física, nivel técnico e innovación en los ochomiles, los admiro y respeto mucho y sé que están próximos al ataque definitivo a la cumbre y quiero desearles la mejor de las suertes cuídensen mucho allá arriba un abrazo y fuerza se que lo van a lograr¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡

    Posted by Aldo Cepeda | February 5, 2012, 3:57 pm
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  4. you are the best!!!
    best wishes from the basque country!!
    we will follow you…

    Posted by kepa | February 5, 2012, 9:13 pm
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  5. Stay warm guys I hope the snow stops soon and you can safely go for the top …. Keep safe

    Posted by Tony | February 5, 2012, 10:11 pm
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  6. Good luck all, a tough thing to do. Hope you see elusive snow leopard! Nepal Snow Leopard Foundation says there are still a few in this area, a sighting would be would be awesome.

    Posted by Sibylle | February 13, 2012, 3:46 am
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