Expedition

Island peak Climbing  offers an enjoyable climb the peak, also provides some of the most striking scenery in the Khumbu. If the peak can be likened to an Island in a glacial sea, than the main land forms a semicircle of cliffs that rise in the north to the rugged summit of Nuptse ( 7879m/ 25850ft ), Lhotse ( 9501m/27870ft), Lhotse middle peak( 8410m/ 27590ft), as yet still unclimbed and Lhotse Shar ( 8383m/ 27503ft ). To the east, rising above the frozen waves of the Lhotse Shar glacier, is...Read Full Story

Karakoram Season’s first 8000er SUMMIT: Polish Hajzer and Szymczak top-out Nanga Parbat! (ExplorersWeb/Madrid) Polish winter wolves Artur Hajzer and Robert Szymczak summited Nanga Parbat yesterday at 1:30pm, Pakistan time, after fighting loads of snow and bad weather on a 15 hours-long climb from C4. It would take them nearly 10 hours more to reach back their high camp. Jaroslaw Gawrysiak, who had joined Artur and Robert on the summit push at 10:00pm the previous night, finally turned...Read Full Story

(ExplorersWeb/Madrid) “ Marcin Kaczkan topped-out Nanga Parbat at 10.00am local time, July 2nd , ” the expedition team just reported. A veteran of  Winter K2 Netia expedition , Marcin has endured a 7 days-long summit bid in rough weather and snow conditions. On a first attempt yesterday Marcin, mate Ola Dzik, Italian Simone La Terra and Polish Pawel Michalski were forced back to C4 due to whiteout. Hunkered in the tent, Ola and Marcin waited for over 30 hours, hoping for a second summit...Read Full Story

Updated: June 14, 2010 Note: List is preliminary and subject to changes K2 double headers FTA for K2/Broad Peak Field Touring Alpine has a 14 member team (including guides Fabrizio Zangrilli and Chris Szymiec) for BP, with 8 of them continuing on to K2 for our 3rd effort on the mountain. K2 team will climb via the cesen route. According to Szymiec, this is a non-guided trip for experienced climbers. All members have summited at least one 8000er in the past. www.fieldtouring.com...Read Full Story

A Sherpa crew topped-out Everest last week along with Himex guide Adrian Ballinger who decided to join the push after bolting parts of the route. Peak Freaks member Lucille de Beaudrap reportedly summitted later with Domhnall O’Doughartaigh and two Sherpa. A Russian Lhotse summit push reportedly resulted in an accident but details are unclear. A forecasted weather window might kick off summit attempts on Shisha Pangma and new pushes on Everest this week. Lhotse The large Russian team led by...Read Full Story