George Band, a British pioneer, who was one of the first ascenders of Kangchenjunga in 1955 and a member of the successful Everest expedition in 1953, died yesterday, aged 82. He was born on February 2nd, 1929.

More information about him here.

Finally she made it! At 18h18 local time Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner finished the 14 8000ers! She is now the first lady climber with all 14 8000ers without the use of bottled oxygen. Also Vassili Pivtsov and Maksut Zhumayev are not far from finishing the 14 8000ers with her! Darek Załuski from Poland is also on his way to the top.

Update: All four climbers were on top and are now on descent. They hope to reach Camp IV.

Keep the fingers crossed for a safe return.

Update: All are safe back in BC and soon on their way home.

Report (in German)

The All 14 table is already updated.

Table download

The updated "Female 3 to 14" Table:

Table

Today five Iranians summited Gasherbrum I, Azim Gheychi Saz (now 7 Main-8000ers) and Mahmoud Hashemi (5) at 10:55 local time, Iraj Maani (3) and Husain Moqadam (3) at 12:00 and Koorosh Negahban at 13:10.

On July 22 two more ascents were achieved on Gasherbrum II, French father and son Pascal and Robin de Thiersant! Grandfather Erige climbed to about 7500 m and then needed to turn around.

Report (French)

Before K2 will be in the focus soon, here is a draft table of the Karakoram-8000ers ascents
so far this season.

If somebody is missing from this table, please inform.