Altitude: Winter 2013

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Winter Nanga Parbat | Body of Joel Wischnewski Has Been Recovered

Friday, November 08, 2013

The body of French climber and snowboarder, Joel Wischnewski, who went missing while winter climbing Nanga Parbat, has been recovered from ...

Individuals Who Love Cold and Sufferings | Statistics about Winter Climbers in Pakistan

Friday, March 15, 2013

In extension to Statistical Review of Winter Altitude Climbing in Pakistan , this post presents stats about individual climbers. Five eigh...

Statistical Review of Winter Altitude Climbing in Pakistan

Monday, March 11, 2013

This article presents details of winter altitude climbing in Pakistan (till winter 2012/13) . Most of the information has been directly ext...

Winter 2013 | Rest In Peace Maciej & Tomasz

Sunday, March 10, 2013

"Considering all the circumstances, conditions, my experience, history of Himalayan mountaineering, knowledge regarding physiology...

Winter 2013 | Search Continues on Broad Peak & Nanga Parbat

Friday, March 08, 2013

In a radius of fifty kilometer around Broad Peak, there is no human being except the Polish winter team at BC and a couple of Pakistan Army...

Winter 2013 | Climbers Missing on Broad Peak

Wednesday, March 06, 2013

Yesterday (5th March) evening, four Poles Maciej Berbeka, Adam Bielecki, Tomasz Kowalski and Arthur Malek reached the summit of Broad Pea...

Winter 2013 | Broad Peak SUMMITED

Wednesday, March 06, 2013

Polish team has successfully achieved the first winter ascent of Broad Peak. It’s the second success of Polish Winter Himalayan Climbing ...

Winter 2013 | Amin Brakk Expedition is Over, Bad Weather on Broad Peak and Nanga Parbat

Friday, March 01, 2013

Past ten days in Karakoram and Western Himalayas has been quite monotonous mainly because of bad weather. Snow and wind prevented rescue t...

Winter 2013 | First Winter Ascent of Laila Peak, Rescue Operation on Nanga Parbat

Monday, February 18, 2013

Amidst the unfortunate stories of winter teams to Pakistani eight-thousanders this year, here comes a story of success from Laila Peak (60...

Winter 2013 | Russian Expedition to Amin Brakk (5850m)

Friday, February 15, 2013

While the monumental peaks like K2, Broad Peak and Gasherbrums situated deep in Karakoram are the principal allure for alpinists all aroun...

Winter 2013 | Daniel and Elisabeth Retreat, Bad Weather in Karakoram

Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Scaling Nanga Parbat in winter is proving to be far more challenging than many of us would have predicted. Sixteen teams aiming the first ...

Winter 2013 | Another Departure from Nanga Parbat, Unfortunate on Laila Peak

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

There have been a couple of melodramatic developments in winter climbing over the past two days . Winter action that started early on Nanga...

Winter 2013 | Departure, Summit Pushes, Progression

Sunday, February 10, 2013

It has been around 50 days since the start of calendar winter climbing season. Teams have been fighting subzero temperatures, hurricane gal...

Winter 2013 | Action All Around

Friday, February 08, 2013

With weather improvement the intriguing action returned to Karakoram and Himalayan mountains. Apparently a summit push is in progress on N...

Winter 2013 | Bad Weather All Around

Wednesday, February 06, 2013

Broad Peak, Laila Peak and all winter teams on Nanga Parbat are currently enjoying (an unwanted) period of rest. Bad weather encapsulated ...

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