The weather around the Karakoram peaks is slowing and even stopping progress this week. Meanwhile some teams are not at Base Camp yet.<\/p>\n
Furtenbach Adventures<\/a>\u00a0 reports in with big snow stalling progress. They are a bit nervous because they also want to get K2. When this scenario occurs, often teams will abandon BP and get over to K2 for that attempt, but its too early to make that call now. Furtenbach said today 29 June : “Dumping again. Broad Peak basecamp this morning” and a couple of days ago:<\/p>\n After one night in C1 and one night in C2 whole team is back in basecamp due to bad weather and heavy dumping again. Our sherpas did again crazy hard work fixing the route and breaking trail to C3 in deep snow.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n D\u00e1vid Klein<\/a> and\u00a0Hungarian\u00a0Szil\u00e1rd Suhajda<\/a> targeting GII and GI are stuck. Their home team of Kalifa<\/a> also reports everyone is stalled at base camp:<\/p>\n heavy snow is now making it impossible to move on the mountain, and with a dangerous amount of fresh snow, narrow visibility is not conducive to climbing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n As previously reported,\u00a0Akira Oyabe<\/a> and his 10 member team from Japan have\u00a0the route was completed to Camp 2, “… from now on, you will be able to set up a tent setup for C2 7350 M. It’s progressing nicely for a 1-month attack.” They are back at K2 BC holding for weather.<\/p>\n Canadian Nathalie Fortin<\/a>\u00a0with her teammates Serge Dessureault, Maurice Beaus\u00e9jour<\/a>\u00a0once again commented on the bad weather even though they did spend at night or two at C1\/C2:<\/p>\n For review, these are some of the teams in the Karakoram this Summer:<\/p>\n Climbers with blogs that appear to be updated include:<\/p>\n This heavy snow is becoming more troubling as it is creating serious delays. That said, the largest team are still on the trek including Seven Summits Treks with 39 members, Madison Mountaineering with 11 Sherpas. Along with Furtenbach’s Sherpa support, they can set the route in fairly quickly if it becomes overwhelming for the Japanese team.<\/p>\n Climb On! The weather around the Karakoram peaks is slowing and even stopping progress this week. Meanwhile some teams are not at Base Camp […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":31002,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"The snow is dumping on the Pakistan 8000ers. Most teams are stuck at base camps. This is a run-down on their current position.","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":[422,500],"tags":[503,42],"class_list":["post-31096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-k2","category-k2-2018-coverage","tag-everest-2018-coverage","tag-k2"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/K2-2014-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31096","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=31096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Gasherbrum Delays<\/h3>\n
K2 has ropes near 7,200-meters<\/h3>\n
Who’s There?<\/h3>\n
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What’s Next in Pakistan?<\/h3>\n
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\nMemories are Everything<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"