Nanga Parbat Winter Expedition 2015/2016
December 22, 2015 Diamir Face
90 days, permit Ex-Islamabad, Non-guided climb
NANGA PARBAT - THE KILLER MOUNTAIN
When the sun shines, it smokes up there. The demons blow their horns and fairies cook their bread. (Local Legend)
The "Naked Mountain" as interpreted in the local language, is the "Ninth" in highest in the world and second highest peak in . Standing at the extreme western end of 24,000 Km Himalayan Range - just beyond the deep Indus Valley, culminates in an ice crest, 8125 M high. No other peak within 100 Km
comes anywhere near to it's size. It's incomparable Rupal Face
(southern side) is one of the greatest precipices in the world - a sheer
drop of 5000 M.
A study by the Geo department of Peshawar University in calibration with European and US Universities reveal the fact that Nanga Parbat was became after the collusion of Asian and Indian plates some 400,000 year back. There is no major volcano beneath the Nanga Parbat whoever there are some selpher deposits. Nanga Parbat is the fastest growing mountain on Earth.
Also notorious known as the "Killer Mountain",
it has so far taken the biggest toll of 16 human lives 7 climbers and 9
high porters in one time in the history of mountaineering.
The
first visual record of this mountain was a canvas painted by Rudolf
Schlagintweit brothers - German travelers in 1852. In 1857 one of them
was murdered in Kashgar. Thus the curse of Nanga Parbat had begun.
Nanga
Parbat Mountaineering History began in 1895 when a British expedition
led by A. F. Mummery attempted to find a way up the southern and western
slopes. The party hit by an avalanche and the party disappeared. These
were the first casualties on the Nanga Parbat.
In June, 1953 Hermann Buhl a member of an Austro German expedition led
by K. M. Herligkoffer successfully manages to climb the main peak of Nanga Parbat
massive. It was Hermann Buhl, who took 40 hours of solo climb conquered
this peak and making his name in the history of mountaineering.
Jean Christophe Lafalille and Ed Viesturs successfully submitted this mountain on its 50th anniversary. Thus celebrating the Hermann Buhl magnificent efforts by scaling again this mountain on its 50th
birthday, 2003. Reinhold Messner the first person to climb all 8000
meters peaks in the world return to Pakistan in 2003 for Nanga Parbat,
there he find his brothers Gunther Reinhold remains who lost their life
in 1970 after coming down from Nanga Parbat successful bid and enrolling
their names as 5th and 6th person to scale Nanga Parbat.
