Nanga Parbat next to K2 is one of two eight-thousanders with no first winter ascend. In the upcoming season 2015/16 there are 4 of 5 different Polish expeditions or expeditions with the participation of Poles - to give it a try.
https://www.thebmc.co.uk/taliban-claim-responsibility-for-nanga-parbat-massacre.
Nanga Parbat, the world's ninth highest mountain at 8,126m above the sea level, is popular with trekkers and mountaineers, especially during June and July. Due to hard and cold times of socializm in Poland, the country was excluded from international climbing competitions! Making travelling abroad harder had a huge influence on the Polish Himalayan climbing. There are many stories behind almost every expedition of a famous Polish climber Jerzy Kukuczka; how he collected money and food from his friends and family for almost a year to go for a climb. This separation from the Himalayas made Polish climbers ‘fussy’. Almost every year there were made several summer attempts to climb the eight-thousanders. And this is how a winter climbing became a Polish thing :) To understand how big progress was made by the Poles look at
https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lista_pierwszych_zimowych_wej%C5%9B%C4%87_na_o%C5%9Bmiotysi%C4%99czniki
This huge success brings the next generation. This year on Nanga parbat will be 5 different expeditions with. These are :
1.Polish-Pakistani expedition „Justice for all” will try to make it taking the Schellas way, starting from the Rupal side of the mountain. (Marek Klonowski, Karim Hayat, Paweł Dunaj, Paweł Witkowski, Michał Dzikowski, Safdar Karim, Tomasz Dziobkowski, Piotr Tomza, Paweł Kudła). 2. International expedition under the leadership of Alexa Txikona will try their best on the classic way Kinschofers line from the Diamir’s side. This one has a huge potential with equal skills: Alex Txikon, Daniele Nardi, Ali Sadpara, Ferran Latorre, Janusz Gołąb 3. Nanga Light Expedition, from unofficial sources will try to take the Kinshofers way with Elisabeth Revol, Tomek Mackiewicz, Arsalan Ahmed. Tomasz “Czapa ”Mackiewicz who is crowdfounding all his expeditions is a veteran of winter climbing on Nanga Parbat. He has an interesting past, he fully recovered after being a heroin addict. This will be his 4th time in a row of trying to climb it during the winter time. For everyone interested in his great and funny stories watch at least one of his videos!
Eli & Tomeck Nanga Parbat Winter 2015 from tomasz mackiewicz on Vimeo.
4. Simone Moro and Tamara Lunger as a team of super experienced two guys will try to make it fast as Elisabeth and Tomasz Mackiewicz in the “alpine style”.
5. Adam Bielecki and Jacek Czech.
Because the mountain is in Pakistan there is still a risk of terrorist attacks. In 2013 a group of unnamed attackers made a massacre killing an international group of climbers and natives who were helping them.
More here: https://www.thebmc.co.uk/taliban-claim-responsibility-for-nanga-parbat-massacre
Despite all the dangers, the mountain will be crowded as never before.
What do you think about mountaineering and climbing? What’s your opinion on such a way of risk taking? Are you a risk takers?
https://www.thebmc.co.uk/taliban-claim-responsibility-for-nanga-parbat-massacre.
Nanga Parbat, the world's ninth highest mountain at 8,126m above the sea level, is popular with trekkers and mountaineers, especially during June and July. Due to hard and cold times of socializm in Poland, the country was excluded from international climbing competitions! Making travelling abroad harder had a huge influence on the Polish Himalayan climbing. There are many stories behind almost every expedition of a famous Polish climber Jerzy Kukuczka; how he collected money and food from his friends and family for almost a year to go for a climb. This separation from the Himalayas made Polish climbers ‘fussy’. Almost every year there were made several summer attempts to climb the eight-thousanders. And this is how a winter climbing became a Polish thing :) To understand how big progress was made by the Poles look at
https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lista_pierwszych_zimowych_wej%C5%9B%C4%87_na_o%C5%9Bmiotysi%C4%99czniki
This huge success brings the next generation. This year on Nanga parbat will be 5 different expeditions with. These are :
1.Polish-Pakistani expedition „Justice for all” will try to make it taking the Schellas way, starting from the Rupal side of the mountain. (Marek Klonowski, Karim Hayat, Paweł Dunaj, Paweł Witkowski, Michał Dzikowski, Safdar Karim, Tomasz Dziobkowski, Piotr Tomza, Paweł Kudła). 2. International expedition under the leadership of Alexa Txikona will try their best on the classic way Kinschofers line from the Diamir’s side. This one has a huge potential with equal skills: Alex Txikon, Daniele Nardi, Ali Sadpara, Ferran Latorre, Janusz Gołąb 3. Nanga Light Expedition, from unofficial sources will try to take the Kinshofers way with Elisabeth Revol, Tomek Mackiewicz, Arsalan Ahmed. Tomasz “Czapa ”Mackiewicz who is crowdfounding all his expeditions is a veteran of winter climbing on Nanga Parbat. He has an interesting past, he fully recovered after being a heroin addict. This will be his 4th time in a row of trying to climb it during the winter time. For everyone interested in his great and funny stories watch at least one of his videos!
Eli & Tomeck Nanga Parbat Winter 2015 from tomasz mackiewicz on Vimeo.
4. Simone Moro and Tamara Lunger as a team of super experienced two guys will try to make it fast as Elisabeth and Tomasz Mackiewicz in the “alpine style”.
5. Adam Bielecki and Jacek Czech.
Because the mountain is in Pakistan there is still a risk of terrorist attacks. In 2013 a group of unnamed attackers made a massacre killing an international group of climbers and natives who were helping them.
More here: https://www.thebmc.co.uk/taliban-claim-responsibility-for-nanga-parbat-massacre
Despite all the dangers, the mountain will be crowded as never before.
What do you think about mountaineering and climbing? What’s your opinion on such a way of risk taking? Are you a risk takers?
Comments
Answering your questions, I'm totally not fit for mountain climbing, but if someone wants to do it, then why not :) Everyone has their hobby, and the risk is theirs. I'm not in the position of judging them.
The only kind of "climbers" that I would call irresponsible are the tourists that you hear about every year, climbing Tatry (or other mountains) without proper equipment or clothing, and either dying or getting injured high up in the mountains. If a professional mountaineer gets injured, that can be called an accident; but if a tourist goes to the dangerous area unequipped, that's stupidity.
To answer your question - I think that the expedition is pretty risky but it's not a crazy risk. These people seem passionate about it so I wish them all the best. I'm not sure why the terrorist attack such places but I just hope they don't.
of expeditions and hope we as a nation are going to keep it up : )
In this case, you should not start a family. If someone decides to start a family decides to also change the priorities in your life. No longer lives only for himself, but it is necessary and responsible for coming up and it's not even then only his business or die or not die.
Anyway, I recommend the book, which forms the basis, inter alia, was filmed the movie "Everest. On certain death". One of the participants of the expedition after years of climbing in the end he noticed that it was on his part a total selfishness and escape.
At the same time I agree with people's opinion above, as mountain climbing is dangerously useless in contemporary world. I mean we have all those technological supremacy that will allow us to reach the top of the mountain with minimum risk. Sometimes all those sacrifices are seem as a perfect cases for Darwin Nomination.