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K2 Winter Ascent a bust?


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NETIA K2 Polish Winter Expedition

 

Looks like the Polish Expedition on K2 had to give up. Denis Urubko and Marcin Kaczkan made it up to Camp 4 Tuesday on their summit attempt, but had to bail Wednesday morning.

 

As I understand it, another major storm is coming in and I think they'll pack up and head home.

 

I guess the first winter ascent of K2 is still up for grabs. Any takers?

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Not a bust, just no summit this time. They gave it one helluva try though. They got up to 7750 meters before they were blown off by a freakin blizzard/hurricane.

 

As the rest of the group was packing up basecamp to leave, the expedition leader called anyone who wasn't having toes amputated to get ready to go for the summit.

 

They planned to go from base camp to camp 4 in the blizzard. Then take advantage of a 1 day weather window to go for the summit w/o any fixed ropes in place. Ballsy

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