{"id":20097,"date":"2014-07-21T09:38:16","date_gmt":"2014-07-21T15:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/?p=20097"},"modified":"2016-06-11T10:54:08","modified_gmt":"2016-06-11T16:54:08","slug":"k2-summit-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/21\/k2-summit-schedule\/","title":{"rendered":"K2: Summit Schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Camp 2 through a telescope from K2 Base Camp July 21, <\/a> 2014.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The weather has cleared and it is a perfect day here at BC. The forecast calls for summit winds under 30 mph over the next week – ideal for us. There are about 60 people going for the summit over this period including around 7 women.<\/p>\n

This is much more than normal for K2 but 2014 is the 60th anniversary of the first summit in 1954 by Italians led by Ardito Desio, <\/a> and the two climbers who reached the summit were Lino Lacedelli and Achille Compagnoni. The team included Pakistani member, Colonel Muhammad Ata-ullah.<\/p>\n

There is still work to do on K2 as the fixed ropes have only been set to Camp 3. Thus the early summit teams will take on an additional load of breaking trail and fixing the bottleneck above Camp 4. Our Sherpas will assist as possible.<\/p>\n

By the way, our Sherpas have over 30 summits of Everest between them, maybe 40 \u2026 They reported tonight waist deep snow from Camp 1 higher after the recent snowfall experienced in Base Camp.<\/p>\n

If I summit, I believe I would be the oldest American. Since the first American summit of 4 in 1978, there have only been 10 more including the likes of Viestures, Fisher, etc. One died on the descent. The last American summit was in 2007 by Chris Warner thus there have been 14 Americans summit. The last year K2 allowed a summit was 2012 with 28 on July 31 bringing the total to 334 with 83 deaths (updated numbers).<\/p>\n

You can follow me on the summit push through the SPOT tracker on the main blog page , http:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/k2-2014\/, where I will also post audio updates, however, the audio updates seem to be unreliable possibly due to the high rock walls of K2. I will also try to send short updates via Twitter to @alan_arnette.<\/p>\n

I will do my to make a sat call from the summit to my blog if I am so fortunate.<\/p>\n

We leave on Tuesday, July 22 2014. This is the ideal schedule assuming no weather or health delays<\/p>\n