Season's end preliminary 2009 Karakoram climbing report
10:53 am CDT Aug 18, 2009
Here goes a preliminary Karakoram summer 2009 8000+ summits report compiled by ExWeb's contributor Brazilian writer and chronicler Rodrigo Granzotto Peron for AdventureStats.
Note the very few summits on G2 and K2, and zero summits on Broad Peak. Fewer climbers, bad climbing conditions - but also an improved watch of true summits all contributed to the resulting 35 summits this season, compared to 93 in 2008.
Fatalities
On only 35 summits, we lost 5 mountaineers on the Karakoram 8000ers.
K2 claimed Italian Michele Fait who slipped while skiing down the Cesen route. Korean star climber Miss Go fell to her death on Nanga Parbat at a section where the fixed rope had been removed. Austrian Wolfgang Köblinger perished on descent high up on Nanga Parbat's normal route.
Italian Cristina Castagna slipped and fell into a crevasse on descent from Broad Peak camp 4. Spanish mountaineer Luis M. Barbero was last seen near the summit of Gasherbrum II and was reported lost some days later by his team mates down in BC.
Summits
K2
1) 19.07.2009 Jorge Egocheaga Rodriguez (SPA)
Nanga Parbat
1) 10.07.2009 Oh Eun-Sun (S-K)
2) 10.07.2009 Pemba Tshering Sherpa (NEP)
3) 10.07.2009 Dawa Wangchuk Sherpa (NEP)
4) 10.07.2009 João Garcia (POR)
5) 10.07.2009 Aminullah (PAK)
6) 10.07.2009 Mohammad Ali (PAK)
7) 10.07.2009 Hans Wenzl (AUT)
8) 10.07.2009 Richard (Rick) Allen (UK)
9) 10.07.2009 Alexander (Sandy) Allan (UK)
10) 10.07.2009 Go Mi-Sun (S-K)
11) 10.07.2009 Kim Jae-Soo (S-K)
12) 10.07.2009 Tshering Dorje Sherpa (NEP)
13) 10.07.2009 Sonam Sherpa (NEP)
14) 10.07.2009 Wolfgang Koblinger (AUT)
15) 11.07.2009 Gerfried Goschl (AUT)
16) 11.07.2009 Louis Rousseau (AUT)
17) 11.07.2009 Herbert Schutter (AUT)
18) 11.07.2009 Josef (Sepp) Bachmair (AUT)
19) 11.07.2009 Johann (Hans) Goger (AUT)
Gasherbrum 1 (Hidden Peak)
1) 26.07.2009 Veikka Gustafsson (FIN)
2) 26.07.2009 Kazuya Hiraide (JAP)
3) 26.07.2009 Nikolay Petkov (BUL)
4) 26.07.2009 Boyan Petrov (BUL)
5) 26.07.2009 Nikolay Valkov (BUL)
6) 26.07.2009 Doychin Boyanov (BUL)
7) 03.08.2009 Oh Eun-Sun (S-K)
8) 03.08.2009 Dawa Wangchuk Sherpa (NEP)
9) 03.08.2009 Carlos Soria (SPA)
10) 03.08.2009 Marta Alejandre (SPA)
11) 03.08.2009 Oskar Porras (SPA)
12) 03.08.2009 Unai Zendoia (SPA)
13) 03.08.2009 Arkaitz Lasa (SPA)
Gasherbrum 2
1) 09.07.2009 Ueli Steck (SWZ)
2) 01.08.2009 Boyan Petrov (BUL)
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