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The GPS trackers show a lot of random movement above C3. The section between C3 and traditional C4 had a large crevasse that caused the K2-Ten to search for a bypass, so maybe this is what is happening with the summit teams now. \u00a0I expect only a handful of summits, if any during this effort.\u00a0Here’s the K2 summit schedule for the SST team: (all dates and times K2 time)<\/p>\n
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- Tuesday, 2 Feb: BC – C1 (winds over 20 mph)<\/li>\n
- Wednesday, 3 Feb: C1 – C3\u00a0(winds drop under 20 mph morning)<\/li>\n
- Thursday, 4 Feb: C3 – Begin Summit Push before midnight (winds under 20 mph)<\/li>\n
- Friday, 5 Feb: Summit – C2 (winds under 20 mph)<\/li>\n
- Saturday, 6 Feb: C2 – BC (wind increase over 20 mph by noon)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
This is the latest<\/strong><\/span> wind forecast from windy.com (red is bad, green is good):<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Weather through this weekend. Courtesy of Windy.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n Remember, while impressive to reach Camp 3, it is still a huge effort to reach the summit, and the window is closing. Climbers need to push very hard to summit at this point. There is no C4 this winter season.<\/p>\n
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K2 Abruzzi Route Map<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n We have solid reports of these people on the summit push. All should be at C3 as of\u00a0late Thursday night, K2 time.<\/p>\n
No O’s<\/span><\/p>\n
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- Juan Pablo Mohr Prieto<\/li>\n
- Tamara Lunger<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
With O’s<\/span><\/p>\n
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- Noel Hanna<\/li>\n
- Bernhard Lippert<\/li>\n
- Tomasz Rotar<\/li>\n
- Colin O’Brady<\/li>\n
- Atanas Georgiev Skatov<\/li>\n
- Antonios Sykaris<\/li>\n
- Bernhard Lippert<\/span><\/li>\n
- Tomasz Rota<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
Iceland\/Pakistan Team: (oxygen use unclear)<\/span><\/p>\n
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- John Snorri Sigurjonsson<\/li>\n
- Muhammad Ali Sadpara<\/li>\n
- Sajid Ali Sadpara<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
Sherpas<\/p>\n
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- Lhakpa Temba Sherpa<\/li>\n
- Mingma Temba\u00a0Sherpa<\/li>\n
- Lakpa Dendi\u00a0Sherpa<\/li>\n
- Phurbu Kusang\u00a0Sherpa<\/li>\n
- Lakpa Nurb\u00a0Sherpa<\/li>\n
- Pasang Dukpa\u00a0Sherpa<\/li>\n
- Pastemba\u00a0Sherpa<\/li>\n
- Temba Bhote\u00a0Sherpa<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
\nSnorri & Team – At C2, Targeting Friday, February 5th for Summit, Hit by Rock<\/h3>\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. His tracker shows him at 7,400 meters which is between C3 and C4 as of Thursday night.<\/p>\n
Seven Summits Treks – At C1, 18 or more from SST on the Mountain. Lunger Ends<\/h3>\n
Seven Summits Trek’s<\/a> summit push is in full bloom. However, not everyone is doing well. Several members have returned to Base Camp and one, Polish female climber,\u00a0Magdalena Gorzkowska<\/strong> suffered stomach pain and began vomiting at C1 and was helicoptered to Skardu. She was climbing with no supplemental oxygen and limited previous acclimatization. Also, the extremely experienced climber, Tamara Lunger<\/strong> ended her bid after reaching C3. She was suffering from GI issues at Base Camp before her summit bid. It seems that stomach issues are rampat with the ST team<\/span><\/p>\n
By my count, there are 18 people from SST on this summit push, leaving six or so members hoping for another window or not trying at all. Juan Pablo Mohr’s<\/strong> tracker show him at 7300-meters which is just above C3.<\/span><\/p>\n
\nManaslu: One Team Quits, Other Looks to the Summit<\/h2>\n
Simone Moro<\/a>, Alex Txikon<\/a>, and I\u00f1aki Alvarez have found a route around the giant crevasse and are\u00a0making good progress fixing the route and have begun thinking about the summit.\u00a0Tenji Sherpa<\/a> and Vinayak Jaya Malla<\/a> have abandoned their effort:<\/p>\n
“…the team is walking off the mountain safely ascertaining that alpine style, no fixed ropes, fast and light on Manaslu is not possible this season.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Climb On!
\nAlan
\nMemories are Everything<\/p>\nResources:<\/h2>\n
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- Share your opinion on the reader polls<\/a><\/li>\n
- A 30-minute documentary of Alan’s 2014 K2 Summit<\/a><\/li>\n
- Known GPS Trackers:\n
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- Atanas Skatov<\/a><\/li>\n
- John Snorri Sigurjonsson<\/a><\/li>\n
- Juan Pablo Mohr Prieto<\/a><\/li>\n
- Passang Norbuu Sherpa<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
- The traditional K2 Camp locations are:\n
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- Base Camp: 17,500ft\/5334m<\/li>\n
- Advanced Base Camp: 18,650ft\/5650m<\/li>\n
- Camp 1: 19,965’\/6050m<\/li>\n
- Camp 2: 22,110’\/6700m<\/li>\n
- Camp 3: 23,760’\/7200m<\/li>\n
- Camp 4: 25,080’\/7600m<\/li>\n
- Summit: 28,251”\/8611<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The few climbers who have made it high on K2 have started their summit push, late Thursday night K2 time.\u00a0Another medical evacuation from K2 Base Camp, this makes three this season. Climbers are nearing the summit as the winds return on Saturday. 20+ people still on the summit push, more than a usual summer season – the power of commercialization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":38288,"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 summit push underway, late Thursday night K2 time.\u00a0Another medical evacuation. Winds return on Saturday. 20+ people still on the summit push.","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-38327","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\/38327","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=38327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38327\/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=38327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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- John Snorri Sigurjonsson<\/a><\/li>\n
- A 30-minute documentary of Alan’s 2014 K2 Summit<\/a><\/li>\n
- Share your opinion on the reader polls<\/a><\/li>\n
- Tomasz Rota<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n