{"id":24245,"date":"2016-08-08T16:55:57","date_gmt":"2016-08-08T22:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/?p=24245"},"modified":"2016-08-11T20:01:39","modified_gmt":"2016-08-12T02:01:39","slug":"k2-and-karakorum-2016-wrap-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/08\/k2-and-karakorum-2016-wrap-up\/","title":{"rendered":"K2 and Karakorum 2016 Wrap-Up"},"content":{"rendered":"

It looks like most of\u00a0the attempts on the major 8000 meter and surrounding peaks\u00a0in Northern Pakistan have\u00a0come to an end this summer season. A small Czech team continues to wait out weather on GI. You can follow them on their blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n

2016 will go down as another year with no summits of K2 and only a few for\u00a0the other\u00a0peaks. Similar to 2015, weather and snow conditions stopped many efforts. It appears that\u00a0climbing\u00a0the world’s 8000 meter mountains\u00a0have become more unpredictable and difficult over the last few years.<\/p>\n

As previously noted, it is a busy season on K2 but the other peaks\u00a0seem to be about normal for permits. This is a list of the\u00a0Karakorum 2016 Expeditions<\/a>\u00a0permits that were issued for all the Karakoram mountains this summer. The summary is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Peak<\/strong><\/td>\nPermits<\/strong><\/td>\nSummits<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Gasherbrum I<\/td>\n3<\/td>\n8<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Gasherbrum II<\/td>\n6<\/td>\n8<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Gasherbrum I & II<\/td>\n28<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Gasherbrum IV<\/td>\n2<\/td>\n2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Total\u00a0Gasherbrums<\/strong><\/td>\n39<\/strong><\/td>\n18<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nanga Parbat<\/td>\n19<\/td>\n3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Broad Peak<\/td>\n19<\/td>\n2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
K2 & Broad Peak<\/td>\n60<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
K2<\/strong><\/td>\n62<\/strong><\/td>\n0<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
K2 Total<\/td>\n112<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
other permits<\/td>\n25<\/td>\n?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Lets start with those peaks that saw teams summit:<\/p>\n

Nanga Parbat: 3 Summits<\/h3>\n

At 26,660’\/8126m Nanga is known to be one of the more technical 8000ers. There were several teams attempting by different\u00a0routes but only the international team lead by Spaniard\u00a0Ferran Latorre<\/a>, with Frenchman H\u00e9lias Millerioux and Bulgarian Boyjan Petrov\u00a0summited via the standard\u00a0route aka Kinshofer route on the\u00a0Diamir Face.<\/p>\n

Latorre only has Everest to summit (hopefully in 2017) to complete all 14 of the 8000ers without supplemental Os. Petrov is also on track with eight of the 14 thus far.<\/p>\n

They posted this nice video approaching the summit:<\/p>\n