{"id":48481,"date":"2025-08-08T16:09:53","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T22:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/?p=48481"},"modified":"2025-08-13T13:57:32","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T19:57:32","slug":"k2-2025-coverage-slow-k2-summit-progress-but-optimism-prevails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/08\/k2-2025-coverage-slow-k2-summit-progress-but-optimism-prevails\/","title":{"rendered":"K2 2025 Coverage: Slow K2 Summit Progress But Optimism Prevails – Update 1"},"content":{"rendered":"
UPDATE 8\/9\/25<\/strong>: Rockfall too dangerous tor the Madison team, including Ryan, so they called it Now preparing to leave. others continue having a different risk tolerance calculation . Ryan is disappointed but understands the decision.<\/div>\n
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The unrelenting winds stalled most teams and sent more members home as time, supplies and motivation ran out. Most teams are not updating their social media, so information is difficult to come by. We now understand that the fixed ropes are 200 meters above Camp 3, which would be around 7400 meters or 24,300 feet. Teams are expecting to summit on Monday, August 11.<\/div>\n
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The upper mountain is reported to be in good condition, with the largest area of concern between Camp 1 and Advanced Base Camp, which has persistent rockfall. There are just a handful of teams left on the mountain, all with few climbers. They include Seven Summits Treks, Imagine Nepal, Elete Expeditions and Madison Mountain Guides.<\/div>\n
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Today, August 9, 2025, in Pakistan, Imagne Nepal<\/a> gave a thorough update:<\/div>\n
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Today our @imaginenepal team dropped 600m of rope and our own equipment to 7100m, or to the point we previously fixed. With this, we have a total of 2400m rope for C4 and the summit, and only our team dropped 1400m rope there, 800m in our previous climb and 600m today. 400m of those 600m were brought by the Madison team from base camp to Camp 2 yesterday, and our team today took them from Camp 2 to 7100m. @prakashguide<\/a> team did a great job today, and also huge applause to Elite Exped joining Prakash\u2019s team to camp3. Now the way is fixed 200m above Camp 3. The condition above camp1 is good, and the condition above camp2 is perfect. Now we are close to the summit and know there will be a summit on 11th August.<\/div>\n
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Today, 1200 rope to 7100m and above by 3 of our team (Imagine Nepal, Prakash\u2019s team AC & Elite Exped), and the way to camp3 gave hope to everyone, and I am sure the whole team will be there at Camp 3 on 10th August. We are confident in reaching the summit, but worried about rockfall below Camp 1 to ABC. The weather is getting better, we have enough rope, and the whole team is trying to make good cooperation, so we have enough manpower too. We will be moving to camp3 tomorrow and try to fix the way further.<\/div>\n
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Thanks to Scom Telecommunications for the 4G service on K2, which worked until the summit. All our team members are connected to their families and friends from the K2 base camp to the summit.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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K2 Abruzzi Route Map<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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There are still climbers on K2 hoping to summit without supplemental oxygen, like Czech climber Jan Polacek<\/a> and Slovak \u00a0Lenka Polackova<\/a>, who posted in part on her IG account:<\/div>\n
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…we are still in doubt with our acclimatization, but we still do not give up the attempt to climb without oxygen. There is only one climb attempt left and the teams that will cooperate will try to jointly fix the route to the top.\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Most teams and many individuals have left, but an estimated (very rough guess) that 20-30 total people, split equally between commercial and independent climbers, remain for the summit push starting today, August 5th<\/sup>, 2025.<\/div>\n
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Popular US climber Ryan Mitchell<\/strong> and Madison Mountaineering<\/a> texted me from ABC:<\/div>\n
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Good thing is if a miracle window appears, then we could go abc to c2, on o\u2019s to 3, 3 to summit, summit to ABC \/ BC. Will be hard but we have strong team<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
You can follow Ryan on his InReach tracker<\/a>.\u00a0<\/div>\n
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I’ll update this post with news from the K2 attempt. If the weather cooperates\u2014and that’s still a huge IF\u2014look for short-term progress until Sunday, when the summit push will begin in earnest.<\/div>\n

Climb On!
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The unrelenting winds stalled most teams and sent more members home as time, supplies and motivation ran out. Most teams are not updating their social media, so information is difficult to come by. We now understand that the fixed ropes are 200 meters above Camp 3, which would be around 7400 meters or 24,300 feet. Teams are expecting to summit on Monday, August 11.<\/p>\n

The upper mountain is reported to be in good condition, with the largest area of concern between Camp 1 and Advanced Base Camp, which has persistent rockfall. There are just a handful of teams left on the mountain, all with few climbers. They include Seven Summits Treks, Imagine Nepal, Elete Expeditions and Madison Mountain Guides. #K2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":37951,"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":[432,42,816,745],"class_list":["post-48481","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-ryan-mitchell"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Approaching-the-Bottleneck-Above-K2-C4-2014-scaled.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48481","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=48481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}