{"id":21789,"date":"2015-12-05T13:28:59","date_gmt":"2015-12-05T20:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/?p=21789"},"modified":"2016-03-29T06:04:34","modified_gmt":"2016-03-29T12:04:34","slug":"nanga-parbat-to-see-5-winter-attempts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/05\/nanga-parbat-to-see-5-winter-attempts\/","title":{"rendered":"Nanga Parbat to see 5 winter Attempts, None on K2"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Nanga<\/a>Only two of the fourteen 8000 meter mountains have not seen climbers top out in the winter: K2 and\u00a0Nanga Parbat in Northern Pakistan. But this winter of 2015\/2016 will see five attempts on Nanga Parbat. However before predicting a summit, there has\u00a0been 27 previous winter attempts on the “Naked Mountain” without success\u00a0thus preparing the teams for\u00a0most any outcome.<\/p>\n

K2 will see no attempts this winter after seeing no summits in the summer. K2 remains a formidable challenge in any\u00a0season.<\/p>\n

8000ers playing\u00a0tough in 2015<\/h3>\n

As I previously reported<\/a>, 2015 has been a difficult year on the world’s highest mountains.<\/p>\n

\"2015<\/a><\/p>\n

Nanga Parbat<\/h3>\n

This season, four\u00a0teams will climb from\u00a0the\u00a0Diamir side and one\u00a0from the Rupal\u00a0side. Nanga is the world’s ninth highest at 8,125 meters or 26,6565 feet. In addition to a long history of mountaineering, Nanga became infamous in the summer of 2013 with the murder of 11 people at base camp by alleged Taliban terrorists.<\/p>\n

Nanga Parbat is notorious for having difficult winter conditions: high winds, deep snow, and unpredictable weather that creates few, if any, narrow weather windows for summit pushes. Many teams try to climb in alpine style after acclimatizing on other peaks\u00a0in order to take advantage of these short windows with fast climbs to the summit.<\/p>\n

This season, many of the teams have a unique and sometimes unusual name. Let’s look at each one.<\/p>\n

Nanga Revolution –\u00a0Kinshofer Route\/Diamer Face\/Alpine Style<\/b><\/p>\n

Climbing in alpine\u00a0style, Adam Bielecki, who has the first winter ascent of Broad Peak and G1 with Jacek Czech. They\u00a0will first\u00a0acclimatize\u00a0on Ojos del Salado, 6893m, in the Andes before heading to NB.<\/p>\n

International\u00a0Team – Kinshofer Route\/Diamer Face\/Seige Style<\/strong><\/p>\n

Janusz Golab, Alex Txikon, Ali Sadpara and Daniel Nardi will climb in\u00a0traditional seige\u00a0style using\u00a0fixed ropes but not using supplemental\u00a0oxygen.<\/p>\n

The North Face team – Messner Route\/Diamer Face\/Alpine Style<\/strong><\/p>\n

No stranger to winter summits,\u00a0Italian\u00a0Simone Moro has 15 winter expeditions. His teammate is Tamara Lunger. They will first\u00a0acclimatize\u00a0on Spantik, 7027m, in\u00a0Pakistan\u00a0before\u00a0heading to NB\u00a0around December 21, 2015. Moro has said he will not post any updates during his expedition\u00a0so as to keep his plans and location\u00a0from the other teams as there\u00a0is global publicity\u00a0for the first person, and their\u00a0sponsor, to claim the first winter ascent.<\/p>\n

Rubber Duck Team – Messner Route\/Diamer Face\/Alpine Style<\/strong><\/p>\n

After reaching 7800 meters in 2014\/15, climbing in\u00a0alpine style, Elisabeth Revol (France), Tomek Mackiewicz (Poland) and Arslan Ahmed Ansari (Pakistan) will\u00a0try to reach the summit this year.<\/p>\n

Justice for All Team –\u00a0Schell\u00a0Route\/Rupal Slide\/Seige Style<\/strong><\/p>\n

The\u00a0largest\u00a0team on the\u00a0mountain\u00a0this\u00a0season, with nine members (seven from Poland, two\u00a0Pakistani) in a traditional style\u00a0with\u00a0fixed\u00a0ropes\u00a0and camps. \u00a0The Schell Route is one of the longest on Nanga and climbers\u00a0usually plan on at least\u00a0one bivy during\u00a0their summit push. They\u00a0are\u00a0acclimatizing\u00a0on\u00a0Rakaposhi, 7788m, in Pakistan.<\/p>\n

Best of luck to all,<\/p>\n

Climb On!
\nAlan
\nMemories are Everything<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Only two of the fourteen 8000 meter mountains have not seen climbers top out in the winter: K2 and\u00a0Nanga Parbat in Northern […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"After a very difficult 2015 for many of the 8000m mountains, Nanga Parbat will see 5 teams go for it's first winter summit, while K2 will see none.","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[237],"class_list":["post-21789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climbing-news","tag-nanga-parbat"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}