Winter expeditions are on

Alex Txikon (l.) and Simone Moro in Lhukla

Several winter expeditions in the Himalayas and Karakoram started in the first days of the year. Two of the three climbers who had succeeded the first winter ascent of Nanga Parbat in 2016 met in Lhukla in Nepal, however now with different goals: The Spaniard Alex Txikon wants to tackle K2 in Pakistan, the last remaining eight-thousander to be climbed for the first time in the cold season, the Italian Simone Moro is drawn to Manaslu again. The 51-year-old and the South Tyrolean Tamara Lunger had failed on the 8167-meter-high mountain in western Nepal in 2015 because of the enormous snow masses of that winter. This year, according to the Kathmandu-based newspaper “The Himalayan Times”, Moro plans to climb with the Nepalese Pemba Gyalje Sherpa on the normal route without bottled oxygen. In order to acclimatize, they wanted to climb the 6,476-meter-high Mera Peak in the Khumbu region.

Also two Poles in Txikon’s K2 team

Alex Txikon meanwhile travelled with his Sherpa team to Islamabad. There he meets his Spanish climbing partner Felix Criado and other compatriots from the K2 expedition team – as well as the Poles Marek Klonowski and Pawel Dunaj. Both have participated several times in winter expeditions to Nanga Parbat. “We will certainly not play the first fiddle if we play the fiddle at all,” said Pawel in an interview with the Polish radio station “RMF 24”. “But we will try to support Alex as much as we can.”

Nur noch sieben Bergsteiger in Pivtsovs Mannschaft

Pivtsovs Team in Islamabad

Während Txikons Team also anwuchs, schrumpfte die Mannschaft der K 2-Winterexpedition aus Russland, Kirgisien und Kasachstan. Es fehlte an Geld, um – wie ursprünglich geplant – mit elf Bergsteigern den zweithöchsten Berg der Erde (8611 Meter) anzugehen. Nun wird der erfahrene Kasache Vassily Pivtsov, der bereits alle 14 Achttausender bestiegen hat, sechs weitere Kletterer anführen: die Russen Artem Brown, Roman Abildaev und Konstantin Shepelev, die Kasachen Tursunali Aubakirov und Dmitry Muraviov sowie den Kirgisen Mikhail Danichkin. Das Team aus den früheren GUS-Staaten hat sich auf den Weg nach Nordpakistan gemacht.

Nardi und Ballard in Lager 1

Daniele Nardi am Nanga Parbat

Noch im alten Jahr waren der Italiener Daniele Nardi und der Brite Tom Ballard im Basislager zu Füßen des Nanga Parbat eingetroffen. Sie wollen – wie berichtet – zusammen mit den beiden pakistanischen Bergsteigern Rahmat Ullah Baig und Kareem Hayat den 8125 Meter hohen Berg auf neuer Route besteigen – über die bisher noch nicht gemeisterte Mummery-Rippe in der Diamir-Wand. Die Bergsteiger stiegen bereits zu Lager 1 auf 4700 Metern auf.

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