Himalaya 2009 climbing season, Karakoram and Himalaya wrap-up /19/ – Week in Review.

Last week was all about Himalaya. Following an extended storm, the peaks were summitted one after the other in improving weather. Everest (both sides), Lhotse, Manaslu, Dhaula, and Kang all had success – Everest south side in very large numbers. The most remarkable of them all became Mr Park’s summit of the highly technical Everest [...]

Himalaya 2009 climbing season, Karakoram and Himalaya wrap-up /18/ – Week in Review.

A big storm sent down most climbers early in the week except for Denis Urubko who incredibly bagged the summit of Cho Oyu via a new line on the SE face in alpine style.  Huge summit pushes are underway again however, with most climbers – including on Everest – gunning for a May 18-19 weather [...]

Himalaya 2009 climbing season, Karakoram and Himalaya wrap-up: Manaslu Summits Tomorrow?

It’s been another busy couple of days in the Himalaya, where things continue to progress on mountains all over the region.  Probably the biggest news out of the Himalaya is that it looks like the summit of Manaslu could well be a busy place tomorrow, with potentially 20 people topping out. ExWeb is reporting that [...]

Himalaya 2009 climbing season, Karakoram and Himalaya wrap-up /12/ – Week in Review.

Posted on April 6, 2009 Himalaya is filling up with hopeful mountaineers. It was a different story a few months ago, with only four 8000-er winter attempts in Himalaya and Karakoram combined. Two teams truly stuck it out, and last week ExWeb checked in with both for debrief interviews. In other news; as rare as [...]

Himalaya 2009 climbing season, Karakoram and Himalaya wrap-up /9/ – Week in Review.

Posted on March 16, 2009 Arctic expeditions are shivering, Babanov announced a very cool new route attempt on Annapurna’s west face, and Simone Moro sounded off. Yet last week was all about Tibet – with a full story of the 50 years-long battle published at ExplorersWeb by an explorer who was there. MountEverest.net March 10 [...]