{"id":40071,"date":"2021-10-01T10:07:39","date_gmt":"2021-10-01T16:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/?p=40071"},"modified":"2021-10-04T09:49:09","modified_gmt":"2021-10-04T15:49:09","slug":"autumn-2021-himalayan-season-more-summits-across-the-himalaya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/01\/autumn-2021-himalayan-season-more-summits-across-the-himalaya\/","title":{"rendered":"Autumn 2021 Himalayan Season: More Summits across the Himalaya"},"content":{"rendered":"

More summits on Manaslu fore summits, and over 30 on Dhaulagiri and soon on Kangchenjunga. And a difficult summit on one of the 2nd Seven Summits.<\/p>\n

Manaslu – Summits<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Update: Lukas contacted me to say the team did not reach the main summit.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Furtenbach Adventure<\/a>‘s used the new route on<\/del>\u00a0reached the foresummit of Manaslu to put climbers on the top<\/del>. Congrats to all for using this new route pioneered by Mingma G<\/del>. Lukas Furtenbach took the opportunity to promote his “Flash” expeditions with this announcement:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Wow, that is what our Flash expeditions are about: All Manaslu Flash Team summited on the REAL summit (Classic team as well on real summit!) this morning in only 12 days\"🤩\"<\/span>\"🙌\"<\/span>\"💪\"<\/span>That makes 100% success in our Classic and in our Flash team. Congratulations to @ruperthauer and @mingma.sherpa8848 and their team. They are now descending. They left their homes in Europe and the US 15 days ago and left Kathmandu 12 days ago. More infos when they are down in basecamp. This achievement from both teams is especially remarkable as they all stood on top of the REAL summit of Manaslu, after @mingma.g and his team were opening the route on september 27th. Thank you for his great work, that opened the way for others\"🙏\"<\/span>For many years it was common to stop at one of the foresummits and the real summit has not seen many ascents so far. These summits were probably the first in autumn season.\u00a0Classic team arrived well in basecamp yesterday evening, same day after summiting.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Kobler & Partner<\/a>\u00a0noted summits but I assume they reached the fore-summit per this report<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I received firsthand, direct reports from some independent climbers who broke trail between C3 and C4 that they ended their efforts. Great effort to attempt sans Os, no Sherpa support, and carrying all their own gear in deep snow conditions.<\/p>\n

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Dhaulagiri – Summits<\/h3>\n

Multiple summits were reported on this\u00a08167-meter\/26,795-foot peak. Sadly, 83-year-old Carlos Soria Font\u00e1n <\/a>on his 12th attempt had to turn back citing deep snow and his new knee replacement. He suggested he will continue trying!<\/p>\n

Of course, Seven Summits treks<\/a> overpowered the route with a team of amazingly strong Sherpas to fix the rope in deep snow to the summit with clients in tow. They posted that 21 people summited:<\/p>\n

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1. NIMA TENDI SHERPA \"🇳🇵\"<\/span> (Fixing Team)<\/div>\n
2. TASHI SHERPA \"🇳🇵\"<\/span> (Fixing Team)<\/div>\n
3. TENJING SHERPA \"🇳🇵\"<\/span>(Fixing Team)<\/div>\n
4. CHO CHEOL HEE \"🇰🇷\"<\/span><\/div>\n
5. HE JING \"🇨🇳\"<\/span><\/div>\n
6. VIRIDIANA ALVAREZ CHAVEZ \"🇲🇽\"<\/span><\/div>\n
7. SOPHIE LAVAUD \"🇨🇭\"<\/span><\/div>\n
8. NAOKO WATANABE \"🇯🇵\"<\/span><\/div>\n
9. MATTEO BONALUMI \"🇮🇹\"<\/span><\/div>\n
10. SIRBAZ KHAN \"🇵🇰\"<\/span><\/div>\n
11. LAKPA DENDI SHERPA \"🇳🇵\"<\/span>(Fixing Team)<\/div>\n
12. PURNIMA SHRESTHA \"🇳🇵\"<\/span><\/div>\n
13. LHAKPA TEMBA SHERPA \"🇳🇵\"<\/span><\/div>\n
14. DAWA SANGAY SHERPA \"🇳🇵\"<\/span><\/div>\n
15. PASTEMBA SHERPA \"🇳🇵\"<\/span><\/div>\n
16. PECHHUMBE SHERPA \"🇳🇵\"<\/span><\/div>\n
17. PASANG RINZEE SHERPA \"🇳🇵\"<\/span><\/div>\n
18. MARCO CAMANDONA \"🇮🇹\"<\/span><\/div>\n
19. PIETRO PICCO \"🇮🇹\"<\/span><\/div>\n
20. TIM BOGDANOV \"🇸🇪\"<\/span><\/div>\n
21. WALDEMAR DOMINIK KOWALEWSKI \"🇵🇱\"<\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Dreamers Destination<\/a> had three on top:<\/div>\n
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1. TSENG KO-ERH (TAIWAN)<\/div>\n
2. NIMA GYALZEN SHERPA (NEPAL)<\/div>\n
3. DAKIPA SHERPA (NEPAL)<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Pioneer Adventures<\/a> said seven climbers from their team summited and noted that\u00a0Mr. Sanu Sherpa summited his 11th time for a double summit of an 8000er.<\/p>\n

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1. Ms. Piyali ( First Indian Women to climb without Oxygen) \"🇮🇳\"<\/span><\/div>\n
2. Ms. Baljeet (First Indian Women to climb Dhaulagiri) \"🇮🇳\"<\/span><\/div>\n
3. Mr. Palkesh \"🇮🇳\"<\/span><\/div>\n
4. Mr. Sanu Sherpa (leader of rope fixing team)\"🇳🇵\"<\/span><\/div>\n
5. Ms. Pasang Lhamu Sherpa (First Nepalese Women to climb Dhaulagiri) \"🇳🇵\"<\/span><\/div>\n
5. Mr. Pema Tshering Sherpa\"🇳🇵\"<\/span><\/div>\n
6. Mr. Danuru Sherpa \"🇳🇵\"<\/span><\/div>\n
7. Mr. Pemba Nurbu Sherpa \"🇳🇵\"<\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Those climbers who summited with personal notoriety included Sophie Lavoud, the Swiss climber now ith her 12th<\/sup> 8000er, Pakistani Sirbaz Khan\u00a0who is on a quest to get all 14, now got his ninth. Also, female climbers continue to make news with Nepalis Purnima Shrestha and Pasang Lhamu Sherpa Akita and Indians Baljeet Kaur and Piyali Basak all summiting. There had been 208 female summits but none from Nepal or India according to the Himalayan Database.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Hungarian climbers<\/strong> are having a good run as well. Hungarian climbing journalist\u00a0Laszlo Pinter<\/a> from Hohatar tells me that the Hungarian Csaba Varga summited without O’s and his trip has been quite a rapid one:<\/p>\n

– he departed from Hungary on 12th September and arrived at base camp on 17th
\n– went up to C1 5900 on 19th
\n– on 21st left for 2nd rotation, spent 2 nights at C2 6450, and tagged C3 before descending back to BC on 24th
\n– started his summit rotation on the 28th. C2 on 29th, C3 on 30th
\n– started summit push at 11 PM on 30th and reached the summit in the footsteps of the SST crew in an 11-hour slog.<\/p>\n

He has not used bottled oxygen and did not take high-altitude porters nor guides. This was his 5th 8000er, all without O’s.\u00a0Further, that two more Hungarians are starting their summit push now:<\/p>\n

– David Klein (you might remember his name, he has 4 successful 8000er ascents including the first and only Hungarian ascent of Annapurna, plus 9 (!) tries on Everest without O’s – with a high point of 8700 m)
\n– and Szilard Suhajda, the first and only Hungarian to have climbed K2, without O’s in 2019
\n– They have been climbing together as a pair since 2017. Their long-term goal is Everest without O’s, now they would love to have success together on<\/p>\n

Dhaulagiri (they were together on K2 but David had to turn back from C3 because of gastro problems, so Szilard continued alone and succeeded). They are a bit more conservative with strategy. They also do not use O’s and porters. They earned their respect in 2019 on K2 when they made their first rotation to C1 before the fixing sherpas, and left in their climbing rope as a fixed rope to help the fixing sherpas, later everybody used their rope.<\/p>\n

Kangchenjunga – Progress<\/h3>\n

Over on Kangchenjunga, the Alpenglow<\/a> team said they are ready for the summit push but we have no current updates os of this post.<\/p>\n

2nd Seven Summit – Dyky-Tau<\/h3>\n

Of note is that Garrett Madison of Maddison Mountaineering<\/a> summited Dykh-Tau<\/a>\u00a0in Russia with his team and Russin guide support. First-hand reports from climbers on the team said it was extremely technical and very difficult. This is a great video<\/a> from\u00a0Tokyo Hutte<\/a>\u00a0in 2018.<\/p>\n

Congratulations to all the climbers and all the world’s Hills this season.<\/p>\n

Climb On!
\nAlan
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