Last weekend, Russian Valery Babanov climbed in stormy weather all the way to 2 looking for the mountaineer, 4-5 more climbers were searching around C1 while Dodo reported that he looked below. Babanov’s team returned to BC from 7100 meters on July 5, ready for the summit push next.ĭodo’s climbing partner Vlado Plulík missing on Broad Peak Dodo and Vlado split up at around 8000 meters on Broad Peak after which Vlado went missing – possibly in a fall. ![]() After reaching camp 3, the climbers retreated to BC Sunday, meeting there with Kazem’s K2 mate from 2007 Chris Warner – now leading an American expedition on Nanga Parbat.Īfter summiting Nanga Parbat Italians Daniele Nardi and Mario Panzeri are attempting Broad Peak next.Īnother Broad Peak summit seems to have been achieved by a French team this weekend. On Nanga Parbat the Iranian team split in two, climbing the peak alone, with the fixed ropes buried by deep snow. By Sunday, after placing a cache near C4, exhaustion forced also team two back to BC. A gas accident pulled team 1 from the peak and by Friday only 5 climbers from team 2 remained high up on the slope (except for a brief visit by a Serbian climber). The Dutch, who have already spent about a month on K2, however wanted to grab the chance of a short weather break forecasted for this weekend. K2 update After fixing the route to camp 3 and then some, Wilco van Rooijen’s team started a summit push on K2’s Cesen route – with no C4 established, and reportedly other teams in BC unwilling to lend a helping hand, citing bad weather. Independence Day was all about Free Speech and Democracy. Last week’s major stories were a K2 summit push and Vlado Plulík’s disappearance on Broad Peak.
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