{"id":34910,"date":"2019-07-24T05:07:37","date_gmt":"2019-07-24T11:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/?p=34910"},"modified":"2022-05-07T13:14:41","modified_gmt":"2022-05-07T19:14:41","slug":"k2-2019-summer-season-coverage-successful-summits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/24\/k2-2019-summer-season-coverage-successful-summits\/","title":{"rendered":"K2 2019 Summer Season Coverage &#8211;  Successful Summits!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Against many unfavorable conditions, <a class=\"fullname ProfileNameTruncated-link u-textInheritColor js-nav\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/Nimraldai\/\" data-aria-label-part=\"\">Nirmal Purja<\/a>&#8216;s Project Possible team plus two Sherpas from Seven Summits treks successfully summited K2 at local time 7:50 am Wednesday, July 24, 2019. Also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/adrian.ballinger.1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Adrian Ballinger<\/a>\u00a0 and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/carlaperezecuador\/?hc_location=ufi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Carla Perez<\/a>\u00a0summited a few hours later at 11:45 am not using supplemental oxygen. Both climbers have now summited both Everest and K2 with no supplemental O&#8217;s. There were a few additional people to summit including one from Iran. Sorry no names available yet.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"_6qw4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/14peakdawa\" data-hovercard=\"\/ajax\/hovercard\/user.php?id=100005045050899&amp;extragetparams={&quot;directed_target_id&quot;: &quot; &quot;}\">Dawa Sherpa<\/a>\u00a0posted this update:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A huge <span id=\"u_0_2r\" class=\"_ezo\">congratulations<\/span> the Fixing team for their successful ascent of Mt. K2 (8611m). The team of Seven Summit Treks and &#8220;Project Pos<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">sible &#8211; 14\/7&#8243;.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lakpa Dendi Sherpa (PP)<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"_5mfr\"><span class=\"_6qdm\">Lakpa Temba Sherpa (SST)<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li>Nirmal Purja (PP)<\/li>\n<li>Chhangba Sherpa (SST)<\/li>\n<li>Gesman Tamang (PP)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2>No Os<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/adrian.ballinger.1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Adrian Ballinger<\/a>\u00a0reports to me<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We did it! Nirmal Purja team and our team made summit. Me and Carla no O&#8217;s. Also a very strong Iranian named Hussein summits today no O&#8217;s. I&#8217;m back in c4.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>His team consisted of: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/adrian.ballinger.1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Adrian Ballinger<\/a>, Ecuadorians <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/carlaperezecuador\/?hc_location=ufi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Carla Perez<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/estebantopomena\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Topo Mena<\/a>\u00a0and Sherpas <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pembageljesherpa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pemba Gelje Sherpa<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/namgye\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Namgye Sherpa<\/a><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Project Possible<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Probably the biggest storyline for this year, and in many years, is <a class=\"fullname ProfileNameTruncated-link u-textInheritColor js-nav\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Nimraldai\" data-aria-label-part=\"\">Nirmal Purja<\/a>&#8216;s effort to summit all 14 of the 8000-meter peaks in 7 months breaking the record of 7 years. With K2, he and his team of four Sherpas have summited 10: Annapurna, Dhaulagiri, Kangchenjunga, Makalu, Everest, Lhotse, Nanga Parbat, Gasherbrum I, Gasherbrum II and K2. Now he is on to Broad Peak before leaving Pakistan for the final climbs in Tibet and Nepal on\u00a0Manaslu, Cho Oyu and Sishapangma &#8211; all of which are considered very achievable although reaching the true summit of Shish is a serious and very dangerous climb.<\/p>\n<p>His team consisted of: <a class=\"fullname ProfileNameTruncated-link u-textInheritColor js-nav\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/Nimraldai\/\" data-aria-label-part=\"\">Nirmal Purja<\/a>&#8216;s and four Sherpas: Lakpadendi Sherpa, Gesman Tamang, Changba Sherpa and Lakpa Temba Sherpa<\/p>\n<h2>More Summits Planned for July 25<\/h2>\n<p><a class=\"_6qw4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/14peakdawa\" data-hovercard=\"\/ajax\/hovercard\/user.php?id=100005045050899&amp;extragetparams={&quot;directed_target_id&quot;: &quot; &quot;}\">Dawa Sherpa<\/a>\u00a0posted that 19 additional SST claimers will go for the summit on Thursday May 25::<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Against many unfavorable conditions, Nirmal Purja&#8216;s Project Possible team plus two Sherpas from Seven Summits treks successfully summited K2 at local time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1635,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"10+ summits on K2 on July 24 including Nirmal Purja who now has 10 summits of 8000ers in 4 months. 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