{"id":48453,"date":"2025-07-31T17:42:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T23:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/?p=48453"},"modified":"2025-07-31T17:42:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T23:42:08","slug":"k2-2025-coverage-hope-springs-eternal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/31\/k2-2025-coverage-hope-springs-eternal\/","title":{"rendered":"K2 2025 Coverage: Hope Springs Eternal"},"content":{"rendered":"
Pakistan’s Northern Territories are seeing climbers leave while trekkers enjoy stunning, rugged mountain vistas. It looks like the action is over on the two Gasherbrums and Broad Peak, with only GII seeing summits; however, climbers remain at K2 Base Camp, hoping for one last break and then a chance to summit.<\/div>\n

K2 – Waiting<\/h2>\n
Popular US climber Ryan Mitchell<\/strong> is at K2 Base Camp and texted me that the remaining teams are working together on a strategy for the camps, oxygen, and rope fixing. Their climbing permit is good through August 14th.<\/div>\n
He assured me, “… we will be on oxygen from camp 2. I feel strong and confident still, but I will listen to my body closely. We put in good work hydration, food, and breathing.” Ryan and the Madison Mountaineering<\/a> team reached 20,400 on Mt Khuart a couple of weeks ago but have not been above ABC on K2. To read more, visit a 2023 trip report on the American Alpine Club<\/a>.<\/div>\n
Imagine Nepal is one of the remaining teams and gave this update:<\/div>\n
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Imagine Nepal K2 Update<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
Mountain\u00a0professionals<\/a> and Elete Expedition<\/a> climbers abandoned their K2 and BP expeditions due to conditions.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

And the Other 8000ers<\/h2>\n

Broad Peak – Over with No Summits<\/h3>\n

Lukasz Supergan<\/a> gave his final update:<\/p>\n

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Unfortunately, a retreat. I reached an area at around 7200 m where the snow was steep and unstable. However, I was stopped by a large crevasse which would have required a risky \u201efree solo\u201d climb to cross. There are quite a few crevasses higher up into which previous teams have fallen. There are also a lot of snowdrifts. This unfortunately means retreating. All teams descend the mountain, probably ending their operations on Broad Peak.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

My friend Ryan Kushner<\/strong>‘s season is over. He began the long trek to Askole and the flight home. He also told me he had a sleeping bag and a tent stolen from Camps 2 and 3.<\/p>\n

Gasherbrum II – Over with No Summits<\/h3>\n

On GII, Karakorum Expeditions<\/a> and Summit Karakorum<\/a> called off their bids.<\/p>\n

Gasherbrum I – Over with 22++ Summits<\/h3>\n

Four teams, three Nepali and one Pakistani, summited the more difficult Gasherbrum, GI, on Sunday, July 20, 2025. Then, on July 22, Elete added eight more. There are over 22 summits.<\/p>\n

Nanga Parbat – Over with 24++ Summits\u00a0<\/h3>\n

Nanga is more southern and western than Pakistan’s four other 8000ers. It’s in the Himalayas, whereas the other Pakistani giants lie in the Karakoram. NP usually sees the first summit yearly; this season was no exception. It appears the season is over and closes on NP with at least 24 summits, including climbers from Russia, Pakistan (5), the Czech Republic, Poland, Germany, France, Nepali Sherpas, and unspecified Europeans.<\/p>\n

Climb On!
\nAlan
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Pakistan’s Northern Territories are seeing climbers leave while trekkers enjoy stunning, rugged mountain vistas. It looks like the action is over on the two Gasherbrums and Broad Peak, with only GII seeing summits; however, climbers remain at K2 Base Camp, hoping for one last break and then a chance to summit. #K2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":48454,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","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":[7,422,815],"tags":[432,42,816,818,745],"class_list":["post-48453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climbing-news","category-k2","category-k2-2025-coverage","tag-climbing-news","tag-k2","tag-k2-2025-coverage","tag-naila-kian","tag-ryan-mitchell"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Mt.-Kharut-Pakistan.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48453","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=48453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}