{"id":31201,"date":"2018-07-13T17:28:20","date_gmt":"2018-07-13T23:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/?p=31201"},"modified":"2019-04-06T12:28:14","modified_gmt":"2019-04-06T18:28:14","slug":"k2-2018-summer-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/13\/k2-2018-summer-coverage\/","title":{"rendered":"K2 2018 Summer Coverage: Progress"},"content":{"rendered":"

With a span of good weather days, teams have made good progress across the Karakoram, including K2. Talk is starting of potential summit days in about a week. AND it looks like there was another summit on Nanga Parbat!<\/p>\n

Big Picture<\/h3>\n

The primary reason climbing 8,000-meter Hills takes so long is weather. You can acclimatize at home to 17,000-feet using altitude tents but you cannot control the weather. The Karakorum and Nanga Parbat season started with a lot of snow that slowed teams down, but recently the snow has calmed down as have the winds – in other words – perfect conditions to set the route and sleep at altitude for acclimatization purposes. However, this nice period will surely come to an end. Climbers are planning for another set of poor conditions late next week.<\/p>\n

Nanga Parbat – Another Summit!<\/h3>\n

Karakorum Expeditions<\/a>\u00a0is saying another client summited Nanga Parbat, “Our member Niels from Belgium and the Korean Team have scaled to the Nanga Parbat! dated 9-7-2018 at 8:23am Pakistan standard time.” He joins Korean\u00a0Kim Migon<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0who also summited with\u00a0Karakorum Expeditions.<\/a>\u00a0It appears they summited on the same day, however fellow Belgium,\u00a0Sofie Lenaerts<\/a><\/span>\u00a0tells me “Hey Alan I have good news from Pakistan. Niels Jespers<\/strong> climbed Nanga Parbat without o2 and sherpa. Made it back safe. This is his first 8000 peak. Very proud of this Belgian young guy with lots of potential!”<\/p>\n

Maya Sherpa<\/a>‘s “First Nepali Women Expedition 2018 to Mt Nanga Parbat” appears to ended her effort joining\u00a0Mike Horn,<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0Alex Gavan<\/a><\/span><\/span>\u00a0and\u00a0Tunc Findik<\/a>\u00a0who were stopped this\u00a0season.<\/p>\n

K2 – Summit Plans<\/h3>\n

The strong team from Seven Summits Treks continues to work hard at fixing the route and now is talking of summit plans after 20 July. Dawa Sherpa<\/a> noted on 13 July:<\/p>\n

We hope to complete the route set up till C4 by today. Yesterday was a nice weather and Sherpa were able to open the route up to 7650m (150m below to the C4). Next 2 days weather is a kind of stable but definitely the summit push will be after 19th July, Hypothetically as per weather report the wind remains (60-80 KM\/H) from 16th.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Japanese climber\u00a0Akira Oyabe<\/a>\u00a0has a similar schedule, “From the weather forecast, 7\/19-23 is going to be attack on the first summit.”\u00a0And K2 skier\u00a0Andrzej Bargiel<\/a>\u00a0continues to make progress saying he made it to C3.<\/p>\n

Broad Peak – Weekend Summit Push?<\/h3>\n

After several false starts plus an aborted serious attempt, several climbers, and teams, are hoping to give BP another try over the next several days. \u00a0Fredrik Str\u00e4ng<\/a>\u00a0posted on Friday, 13 July, “In 3 days from now on you will know how it all went :)” He has been climbing with\u00a0David Roeske<\/a>\u00a0so I assume they will team up on this attempt. By the way, their real objective is K2, so they might not push too, too hard on BP.<\/p>\n

Mingma G<\/a>\u00a0Sherpa who has made quite a name for himself the past few years with multiple 8000-meter summits in short time frames is back on Broad Peak. Last year he believed he summited Broad but GPS tracks and lack of convincing photos suggested they reached the fore-summit, so similar to his experience on Nanga Parbat, he is returning to make sure he stands on the absolute top. He posted that he leaves for the summit this weekend. With his strength, the other teams may be able to join forces and get this done for this season.<\/p>\n

Furtenbach Adventures<\/a>\u00a0had a strong summit attempt last week and will go again hoping the loose snow and avalanche danger above C3 has settled. Lucas told me in a conversation last night, “another summit try on BP starting on saturday. after that move to K2.”<\/p>\n

Gasherbrum – Progress!<\/h3>\n

Adam Bielecki<\/a>\u00a0and Jacek Czech have made excellent progress on GII all the way to C3. Its being reported they will go for the summit on 16 July, Monday fearing incoming weather later in the week. They will team up with\u00a0Kazach Boris Dedeszko and Germany Felix Berg.<\/p>\n

\"Adam<\/a>
Adam Bielecki\u00a0at C3 on GII<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Masha Gordo\u00a0<\/a>and Helias Millerioux, Yannick Graziani trying to traverse G1\/G2 traverse have not provided direct updates recently but Adam Bielecki<\/a>\u00a0noted in an\u00a0interview<\/a>:<\/p>\n

We came out with a lot of uncertainty, because this attempt took place after a large snowfall, and the road on the GII is snow-ice.<\/span> To our surprise, it turned out that two Frenchmen with Masha Gordon came out to the second camp.<\/span> It must be emphasized that they did a great job, because they broke the way to the “two”.<\/span> We and Jack came that day a little higher and we pitched our little tent.<\/span> There were no handrails and quite deep snow, but the cover was fairly stable.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Big Weekend?<\/h3>\n

This could be a nice weekend for summits as long as the weather holds. Sending all our best.<\/p>\n

Climb On!
\nAlan
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