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Born on this day

1959 Bishnu Bhusal, Nepalese climber, who ascended Everest in 2022.


First ascents on this day

1979 Thalay Sagar (6904 m) by a British-American party.


Gone on this day

2017 Alberto Zerain, Spanish Basque climber, who ascended Everest in 1993, Makalu in 1995, Lhotse in 2001, Gasherbrum II and Gasherbrum I in 2006, K2 in 2008, Kangchenjunga in 2009, Dhaulagiri I and Manaslu RP in 2016 and Annapurna I in 2017. He died during an attempt of the Mazeno ridge on Nanga Parbat, aged 55.


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Summary 2009 - Part 1 - Everest and Collectors
Montag, 28. Dezember 2009 um 14:42

It was difficult this year to compile the chronicles. Some false information was around on the net, but it was sorted out finally. The countings of the ascents of Everest are not finished yet, there were over 450! The fatalities table and the table with ascents without bottled oxygen (addition: Ludovic Challeat!) are updated already. The others will follow as soon as possible!

 

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Confusion on Shisha Pangma’s North Face Routes solved
Mittwoch, 07. Oktober 2009 um 18:19

Andrew Lock finished the 14 8000ers on October 2nd with Shisha Pangma. It was reported, that he made a variant of the “Iñaki route”, which is not correct.
 
To end confusion, 18 months ago the table with all routes and variants was published here and the original story with route sketch here, including a long forgotten route.

Austrian climbers made the first traverse to the East ridge in autumn 1980. It was published in the American Alpine Journal 1981, page 309, but forgotten in all publications afterwards until the launch of this website. The handmade route sketch was drawn by a member of the Austrian expedition and it was allowed to publish here under copyright.

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Another New Route Attempt on Cho Oyu
Dienstag, 15. September 2009 um 10:58

Chech climber Leopold Sulovský is leading an expedition to Cho Oyu. They will attempt to climb a new route on the SW Face. Details are reported here!

 
Beka Brakai Chhok and Simone Moro
Dienstag, 11. August 2009 um 16:12

In March of this year, news sites on the internet created controversy based on a writer who claimed to know that Simone Moro was aware he did not climb the highest of the three Beka Brakai Chhok peaks.

This is certainly untrue and will be explained here in detail. The “case” of Beka Brakai Chhok (BBC) is truly one of the most confusing subjects in the history of High Asian research. Simone Moro achieved a fine, historical first ascent, a relatively rare feat in modern times. He and his companion Hervé Barmasse well deserved the “Dalla Longa Award”: BBC South is without question the most beautiful and the most challenging of the three BBC peaks.


In 2006, after private correspondence, it was realized that BBC Central is the highest of the three summits.


If you want to know the difference between the “big” world of passionate climbing, and the “small” world of private passionate research, then you need look no further than the story of BBC. This is a saga about peak identification and listing: it is about comparing maps and checking photos from all directions, mainly panoramas produced by expeditions that achieved first ascents. People involved in this confusing story are not to blame, particularly not the recent first ascensionists.

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Italian pioneer and Polish mountaineer died
Samstag, 08. August 2009 um 16:30

On August 6th, Riccardo Cassin, the leader of the successful Gasherbrum IV expedition in 1958, died, aged 100.

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Yesterday the Polish mountaineer Andrzej Marciniak was found dead on Posrednia Gran in the High Tatras. He ascended Everest in 1989 and Annapurna I in 1996. He was 50 years old.

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