A 3-member team of mountaineers started their expedition to summit K-To (8,611 m), the world’s second highest peak, for the first time this winter.
According to the report, the climbers include 47-year-old John Asnoori from Iceland, 44-year-old Muhammad Ali Sadpara from Gilgit-Baltistan and his 21-year-old son Sajid Ali Sadpara.
Note that K-To is never topped during winter.
According to expedition officials, local labourers, a cook and a guide are with the team of climbers, who left Skardu for K-To base camp on December 1.
They reached Gauro 2 on Thursday (December 3) and are likely to reach K-2 base camp on Sunday (December 6).
Bad weather due to snowfall has slowed down the expedition of the mountaineers.
Asghar Ali Purak of the tour company organizing the expedition said that all the equipment required for the mission had already been shifted to the K-2 base camp.
He said that the climbers will be acclimatized to the environment at the base camp and after that they will start climbing the peak on December 8.
Asghar Ali said that the climbing team plans to reach the K-2 peak by December 30.
He said that 44-year-old Mohammad Ali Sadpara has previously climbed all five 8,000-meter high peaks in Pakistan, including K-2 (8,611 meters), Gesherbarm-1 (8,080 meters), Gesherbarm-2. (8,034 m), Nanga Parbat (8,126 m) and Broad Peak (8,051 m).
Remember that Muhammad Ali Sadpara is the first person to visit Nanga Parbat in winter.
He has also climbed the 8,516-meter high Lhotse peak in Tibet between China and Nepal, the 8,485-meter high Muklu peak and the 8,156-meter high Manaslu peak in Nepal.
Muhammad Ali Sadpara has also scaled Nepal’s Lahotse without bottled oxygen, while his son accompanied him in 2019 as Pakistan’s youngest mountaineer to scale K-2 in the summer.
47-year-old John Snorri from Iceland has summited Nepal’s Lahotse Peak and Pakistan’s K-2 and Broad Peak in the summer of 2017 and also summited Nepal’s Manaslu in winter in 2019.
Last winter, John Snorri reached Camp 2 of K2 at 6,600 meters before his team abandoned the expedition.
About 50 climbers from 3 international climbing teams from different countries will attempt K-To this winter.
An international mountaineering team will attempt to summit the 8,51-meter peak this winter.
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2024-08-11 22:59:25
