{"id":31196,"date":"2018-07-11T04:47:06","date_gmt":"2018-07-11T10:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/?p=31196"},"modified":"2018-07-11T04:47:06","modified_gmt":"2018-07-11T10:47:06","slug":"k2-2018-summer-coverage-another-death-in-the-karakoram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/11\/k2-2018-summer-coverage-another-death-in-the-karakoram\/","title":{"rendered":"K2 2018 Summer Coverage: Another Death in the Karakoram"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_31197\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31197\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Maurizio-Giordano.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-31197 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Maurizio-Giordano-225x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-31197\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maurizio Giordano<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Once again, there is sad news from the Northern Pakistan Mountains. While attempting the almost 8,000-meter peak Gasherbrum IV, 32 years-old\u00a0Italian climber Maurizio Giordano was hit by falling ice while on rappel. He died on the mountain. \u00a0GIV is 7,925-meters.<\/p>\n<p>He was on an acclimatization rotation with fellow Italian Army climbers\u00a0Marco Majori, Marco Farina and Daniele Bernasconi. They had reached Camp 2 but decided to return to base camp as weather moved in. Multiple news agencies report the incident occurred at 6,300 meters. His body had not been retrieved yet.\u00a0They wanted to be the first to repeat the\u00a0Bonatti-Mauri route along the northwest ridge on its sixty anniversary.<\/p>\n<h3>Other GIV Attempts<\/h3>\n<p>There are several other teams on GIV including\u00a0Italian Herv\u00e9 Barmasse and German climber David G\u00f6ttler. Also the\u00a0Basque-Catalan group lead by Oriol Bar\u00f3.\u00a0<span class=\"notranslate\">Adam Bielecki, Jacek Czech and Felix Berg plan to move to GIV after they climb GII. Finally\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"notranslate\">Oriol Bar\u00f3, Marc Toralles, Roger Cararach and Iker Madoz\u00a0<\/span>are there as well.<\/p>\n<h3>Other Activity<\/h3>\n<p>It appears most climbers are wrapping up their acclimatization rotations on the other Karakoram Peaks including K2 for a late July summit attempt. Its now quiet on Nanga Parbat. There was supposed to be another summit attempt on Broad Peak lead by\u00a0<a class=\"_64-f\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/furtenbachadventures\/\">Furtenbach Adventures<\/a>\u00a0but it seems they have not left base camp. But Jake Meyer with Summit Climb reportedly left Camp 3 and experienced the same deep snow that stopped\u00a0Furtenbach\u00a0a couple of days ago.<\/p>\n<p>My condolences to the family, friends and teammates of\u00a0Maurizio.<\/p>\n<p>Climb On!<\/p>\n<p>Alan<\/p>\n<p>Memories are Everything<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once again, there is sad news from the Northern Pakistan Mountains. While attempting the almost 8,000-meter peak Gasherbrum IV, 32 years-old\u00a0Italian climber [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"K2 2018 Summer Coverage: Another Death in the Karakoram","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":[42,501],"class_list":["post-31196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-k2","category-k2-2018-coverage","tag-k2","tag-k2-2018-coverage"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31196","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=31196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}