Eight Thousanders

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• First Attempt: 1902. Aliester crowley and Oscar Eckenstein led a team of six climbers and tried to climb K2's Northeast Ridge. They failed after 68 days and lots of bad weather but made it to 21,400 feet (6,525 meters). A very audacious attempt when high-altitude climbing was in its infancy.
• First Attempt of Abruzzi Spur: 1909. Another great try for the time. An expedition led by the Duke of Abruzzi, Luigi Amedeo (IT), attempted the Southeast Ridge, now called abruzzi spur. Twelve members of the party reached 20,500 feet. The ridge was the first ascent route 45 years later.
• First Ascent: July 31, 1954. Lino Lacedelli and Achille Compagnoni with a large Italian expedition reached the summit at 6 p.m. after running out of oxygen below the top. They rapidly descended in dangerous avalanche conditions.
• First American Ascent: After five attempts by previous American expeditions, in 1978 American climbers Louis Reichardt and Jim Wickwire on September 6, and John Roskelley and Rick Ridgeway on September 7 stood atop K2 for its 3rd ascent. The team spent 67 days on the mountain, mostly above 18,000 feet, while climbing the Northeast Ridge. In a survival test, Wickwire spent a night in the open below the summit at 27,000 feet without food, oxygen, or shelter in temperatures of -40 degrees.
• First Female Ascent: June 23, 1986. Polish climber Wanda Rutkiewicz (1943-1992) was the first woman to successfully climb and descend K2. On August 4 that year, Julie Tullis (UK) also reached the summit but she died high on the mountain on the night of August 6 and 7. Rutkiewicz, who undoubtedly would have been the first woman to climb all the 8k meter peaks, died on her ninth one, Kangchenjunga, in 1992.
• First Ski Descent: 2009. On August 4, American skier Dave Watson became the first person to successfully ski K2, although he didn't ski from the summit. Instead Watson climbed Abruzzi spur until he was above The Bottleneck. He skied the first 60-degree slopes to The Shoulder and continued to Camp 3 at 24,000 feet. Then he rappelled 2,000 feet to Camp 2 where he put skis on and skied 4,500 feet to the base--a 10,000-foot descent.
• First Climbing Death: 1939. K2's first victim was Dudley Wolfe, a rich adventurer on an American expedition led by Fritz Weissner. From a high camp, Weissner and Sherpa Pasang Lama attempted the summit, climbing to 27,500 feet, 800 feet from the top. Wolfe and deputy leader Jack Durrance were at camp, but Durrance fell ill and descended. When Weissner returned, he found no supplies and Wolfe, incapacitated by altitude sickness. The trio descended but found the next camp stripped of supplies. Weissner and Lama left Wolfe at 25,000 feet and continued down. At Base Camp, Weissner sent 3 Sherpas to rescue Wolfe but none were seen again?until 63 years later in 2002 when Wolfe's remains, including bones, bits of a tent, a cooking pot, trousers, and a mitten with his name were found. The 3 Sherpas were killed trying to rescue Wolfe.

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please also share the source of information

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Aamir bhai, now please search for basecamp treks information for all these peaks and share here one by one

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will try to but in leisure.

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please also share the source of information

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very nice info aamir bhai...also tempting too

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Elevation: 29,035 feet (8,850 meters)
Prominence: 29,035 feet (8,850 meters); most prominent mountain in the world.
Location: On the border of Nepal and Tibet/China, Asia
Coordinates: 27?59′17″ N / 86?55′31″ E
First Ascent: Sir Edmund Hillary (New Zealand) and Tenzing Norgay (Nepal)on May 29, 1953.
Fast Facts

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[*]Mount Everest is also called Chomolangma, meaning ?Goddess Mother of Snows? in Tibetan and Sagarmatha, meaning "Mother of the Universe" in Nepalese. The mountain is sacred to the native people.
[*]British surveyors named the peak for George Everest (properly pronounced ?I-ver-ist?) a Surveyor General of India in the mid-nineteenth century.
[*]Everest's current elevation is based on a GPS device implanted on the highest rock point under ice and snow in 1999 by an American expedition.
[*]Mount Everest was once surveyed at exactly 29,000 feet but the surveyors didn't think people would believe that so they added two feet to its elevation, making it 29,002 feet.
[*]Mount Everest is rising from 3 to 6 millimeters or about 1/3 inch a year. Everest is also moving northeastward about 3 inches a year.
[*]Mount Everest was dissected by glaciers into a huge pyramid with three faces and three major ridges on the north, south, and west sides of the mountain. Five major glaciers continue to chisel Mount Everest?Kangshung Glacier on the east; East Rongbuk Glacier on the northeast; Rongbuk Glacier on the north; and Khumbu Glacier on the west and southwest.
[*]Mount Everest has an extreme climate. The summit temperature never rises above freezing or 32? F (0? C). Its summit temperatures in January average -33? F (-36? C) and can drop to -76? F (-60? C). In July, the average summit temperature is -2? F (-19? C).
[*]The best time to climb Everest is in early May before the monsoon season.
[*]The Southeast Ridge from Nepal, called the South Col Route, and the Northeast Ridge or the North Col Route from Tibet are the usual climbing routes.
[*]In 1978 Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler were the first to climb Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen. Messner later described his summit experience: "In my state of spiritual abstraction, I no longer belong to myself and to my eyesight. I am nothing more than a single narrow gasping lung, floating over the mists and summits." In 1980 Messner made the first solo ascent, which was via a new route on the mountain's north side.
[*]The largest expedition to climb Mount Everest was a 410-climber Chinese team in 1975.
[*]The most climbers to reach the summit in a single day were 40 on May 10, 1993.
[*]The safest year on Mount Everest was 1993 when 129 climbers reached the summit and only 8 died.
[*]The least safe year on Mount Everest was 1996 when 98 climbers summitted and 15 died.
[*]Sherpa Babu Chiri stayed on the summit of Everest for 21 hours and 30 minutes.
[*]Stacey Allison from Portland, Oregon made the first ascent by an American woman on September 29, 1988.
[*]The country with the most deaths on Mount Everest is Nepal with 47
[*]Jean-Marc Boivin of France made the fastest descent from the summit of Mount Everest to the base by swiftly paragliding down in 11 minutes.
[*]Davo Kamicar of Slovenia made the first ski descent of Mount Everest on October 10, 2000.
[*]Over 150 bodies of dead climbers are on the peak.
[*]A jumping spider lives up to 22,000 feet on Mount Everest.
[*]A helicopter piloted by a Frenchman supposedly made a hover landing on the summit in 2005.
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Amir Bhai, very informative:)
Abhi sirf itna hi parr saka hoon.....isko superficailly nahi dekha ja sakta balkay concentration kay saath enjoy kia jae ga:)

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What is the best time to trek to K2 base camp? Good Information. I wanted to be 1 of those lucky people but unfortunately were busy consuming tasty calories during peak hours. Still got spirit though but skill climbing is something beyond me I imagine?

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What is the best time to trek to K2 base camp? Good Information. I wanted to be 1 of those lucky people but unfortunately were busy consuming tasty calories during peak hours. Still got spirit though but skill climbing is something beyond me I imagine?

i have done this trek in 2010...

its more a test of will power than horse power..

u can do it even if u r not fully fit but u need a tremendous amount of will.................

i also have an old thread here some where and u can also chek out my pics at

Gilgit-baltistan [Na] - a set on Flickr

[ism1]

seems looking very nice information, but very lengthy indeed, have at least a day to read it wid concentration

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Three iranian are lost on broad peak expedition since two weeks.No one found yet.

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K2 Updates :
A New Zealand mountaineer Marty Schmidt, 53, and his son Denali, 25 , are feared dead after huge avalanche reportedly destroyed their camp on the K2 mountain in Pakistan .
Around 21 climbers with Sherpas and high altitude porters left BC on July 24th, hoping to reach the summit on 28th , however, excessive snow and avalanche risk forced everyone, but two climbers climbed up from Camp 2 to Camp 3 at 7400 M last Friday , even though other climbers had decided to turn back from camp 2 .
As Marty’s last radio communication took place Friday night from the camp, the avalanche almost certainly occurred that night as they slept in their tent.
A Nepali sherpa reached Camp III but said they were nowhere to be seen and the campsite tent showed signs of having been hit by an avalanche . Local Sherpas were dispatched to look for the missing climbers but were unsuccessful. The local trekking company is now surveying the area where the climbers are thought to have gone missing.

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The missing climbers had hoped to reached the summit on July28.
After Nanga Parbat K2 has claimed more lives then any other peak of the world, this is why it is very much famous among the adventurers.

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father along with his son are feared dead after an avalanche on K2, the world's second highest mountain.