The climbing season in Pakistan’s Karakoram Range is well underway with teams arriving at base camps and some already spending a few nights at Camps 1 and 2 during their acclimatization rotations. There are reports of significant snow on the mountains.<\/p>\n
Teams have just arrived at K2 base camp.<\/p>\n
British-American \u00a0Vanessa O’Brien<\/a>\u00a0 reports that she just arrived at K2 base camp today.\u00a0Minga Gyalje Sherpa<\/a> thru his company Dreamers Destination<\/a> is doing the logistics for Vanessa on K2 plus three Chinese, another American, two Icelanders, one Norwegian and one Singaporean. They are also planning on Broad Peak.<\/p>\n Russell Brice and his Himex<\/a> team should also be there so we will have good reports soon.<\/p>\n In the annual battle of who will be the first “American” woman to summit K2, it appears that both Vanessa O’Brien with both a British passport and an American passport is competing against\u00a0Bad\u00eda Bonilla<\/a> from Mexico – geographically considered part of North America – for the obscure title of “First American Woman to Summit K<\/a>2.” Bonnilla along with her husband Mauricio L\u00f3pez were also on K2 last year when avalanche conditions stopped all climbers.<\/p>\n At 26,362\u2019\/8035m. GII is often considered the most attainable of\u00a0the Karakoram\u2019s 8000ers. There have been about 340 summits of GI and 935 of GII.\u00a0Karakorum Tours Pakistan<\/a>\u00a0has a small team of Americans and Spanish climbers in 2017. Juan Vallejo, Mikel Zabalza and Alberto Inurrategi have reached 6400 meters.<\/p>\n At 26,660\u2019\/8126m Nanga is know to be one of the more technical 8000ers. – some will say harder than K2 by some routes. There have been around 360 summits including several in the 2016 winter leaving K2 as the only 8000er not summited in winter.<\/p>\n According to the website Altitude Pakistan<\/a>,\u00a0Alberto Zerain and Mariano Galvan have ended their attempt via the Mazeno Ridge on the Diamir side of Nanga due to bad weather.<\/p>\n On the other side of NB,\u00a0Korean Kim HongBin on the Kinshofer route hit poor conditions as well.<\/p>\n Teams are all over Broad Peak, including a few who just arrived this weekend. Spanish climber Oscar Cadiach<\/a>\u00a0and Furtenbach Adventures<\/a>\u00a0are already at base camp.\u00a0Furtenbach\u00a0<\/a>reports spending nights as high as Camp 3:<\/p>\n Team up on the mountain again. Direct ascent to C2 (pic below) at 6200m yesterday, today to Camp 3 at 7100m and back down to C2 for another night. Tomorrow back to basecamp and acclimatization completed. Route was fixed by our sherpas. Ready for summit push when weather window opens.<\/p><\/blockquote>\nGasherbrum I\/II<\/h3>\n
Nanga Parbat<\/h3>\n
Broad Peak 26,414\u2019\/8051m<\/h3>\n