Snorri and team plan to take 2 days from BC to C3, then the summit and back to C2. So three days up and one back. Again, incredibly aggressive. They plan to summit on Friday.\u00a0This is the wind forecast from windy.com (red is bad, green is good):<\/p>\n As this heat map shows, the winds are off K2 proper … for now<\/p>\n Who’s There?<\/strong><\/p>\n We have solid reports of these people on the summit push, with a few* already turning back day one of the push:<\/p>\n No O’s, No Sherpa Support:<\/span><\/p>\n No O’s with Sherpa Support<\/span><\/p>\n With O’s<\/span><\/p>\n With Os and Sherpa Support<\/span><\/p>\n Iceland\/Pakistan Team: (oxygen use unclear)<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Sherpas:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n John Snorri Sigurjonsson<\/a> with Muhammad Ali Sadpara<\/a> and Muhammad’s 20-year-old son Sajid Ali<\/a>\u00a0at at C3\u00a0at 6500m aiming for a Friday summit. John’s home team gave this update:<\/p>\n Seven Summits Trek’s<\/a> has sent eight Sherpas up to fix the route, and stock the camps for their members. By my count, there are 15 members (perhaps fewer) and about 20 Sherpas still left. Perhaps nine or more members along with two or more climbing Sherpas are with them in addition to the eight already on the mountain. This puts 19 people from SST on this summit push, leaving six or so members hoping for another window.<\/p>\n Dawa gave this update on climber’s status. 18 are still on the mountain while 7 have retreated to Base Camp for unknown reasons.<\/p>\n Returned to BC:<\/span><\/p>\n Simone Moro<\/a>, Alex Txikon<\/a>, and I\u00f1aki Alvarez along with the separate team of\u00a0Tenji Sherpa<\/a> and Vinayak Jaya Malla<\/a> are making good progress fixing the route and have begun thinking bout the summit. Alex’s update:<\/p>\n Third rotation at altitude (in 4 days) passed with excellent sensations. We are working on a new very good and super alpine route! We reached 6,650m, surpassing the 6,450m reached yesterday by Simone, Vinayak and Tenzing. Puffaaa I’m dead but sooo happy !!! Now we have to rest at BC. The next few days, if the weather continues like this, could be crucial!!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Climb On! This round of almost 30 K2 climbers are split between Camps 1, 2 and 3 all aiming for a summit attempt on Friday but 7 climbers returned to BC leaving 21 still on the push. Winds are staying under 20 mph. Rockfall is taking it’s toll. Winds are forecasted to return around noon on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":38288,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"7 Climbers returned to BC while 21 continue on K2 aiming for the summit on Friday. Rockfall is taking a toll. Winds expected to return on Saturday noon.","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":[7,422,562,597],"tags":[42,598],"class_list":["post-38311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climbing-news","category-k2","category-k2-2020-coverage","category-k2-winter","tag-k2","tag-k2-winter"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/K2-Climbers-2014.-\u00a9-www.alanarnette.com_-scaled.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38311","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=38311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"K2](\"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Screen-Shot-2021-02-01-at-Monday-Feb-106.28-PM-640x79.jpg\")
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