„The mountain is still unclimbed for a reason,“ Ralf Dujmovits told me before setting off for Pakistan with his wife Nancy Hansen. „Even the approach to the base of Biarchedi I is difficult.“ The German-Canadian mountaineering couple is attempting the still unclimbed 6,810-meter-high mountain in the Karakoram this summer.
In 2016, Ralf had caught sight of the Biarchedi group during Nancy’s and his failed attempt on the also still unclimbed 7,134-meter-high Praqpa Ri and learned afterwards that the highest mountain of the massif had not yet been climbed – unlike the 6781-meter Biarchedi II, which the legendary Polish climber Jercy Kukuczka (1948-1989) had first climbed solo in 1984. In the meantime, the two have moved into their base camp at 4,500 meters. During the first eight days in Pakistan „everything has gone incredibly smoothly and we have been warmly welcomed by everyone we met,“ Ralf writes on Instagram.
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