„Good news, South Face of Meru South Peak is climbed,“ Swiss Roger Schäli wrote on Instagram today. „On the second attempt it worked. Big dreams need more than one try!“ Schäli, Frenchman Mathieu Maynadier and South Tyrolean Simon Gietl climbed the South Face of the about 6,600-meter-high Meru Peak in India’s Garhwal Himalayas late last week – on a new, challenging route with two bivouacs.
In their first attempt in fall 2019, Schäli and Maynadier – then accompanied by Belgian Sean Villanueva O’Driscoll (he succeeded in a solo ascent of the so-called Fitz Traverse in Patagonia in 2021) – had to turn back at 6,400 meters due to bad weather. This time they were luckier, even though it had snowed heavily during the first phase of the expedition.
„Schäli, Maynadier and Gietl master new route on six-thousander Meru Peak“ weiterlesen
