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Voted 9/10 | Masherbrum 7821 SE Face Masherbrum 7821m was climbed back in 6th and 8th July 1960 by two American Bell Clinch and his friend with Akhtar a Pakistani from South East Face. Since then it took 23 years before a second ascent made by the Japanese Kakeyasu Minamura and Masuhino Nomura in August 1983. Another Japanese expedition in 1985 climbed the impressive and most beautiful North West Ridge and North Face. Masherbrum also called K1 name by British survey team in 1856 while sequencely naming the peaks in Karakoram Range local name of this beautiful peak is Masherbrum. The normal route to Masherbrum Peak 7821 meters is from Hushey Valley of Baltistan. A two days walk from Hushe will bring you the green meadow of Masherbrum Base Camp at 3500m Masherbrum standard route is from South East and has 4 high altitude camps. Take a direct line up the icefall and then climb the crest of the Dome ridge, rather than taking the skirt the icefall on the right and making a long traverse to the Dome and to its top. This way one would rid of the dangerous avalanche on the traverse. Camp 1 is at an altitude of 5,000 meters on the plateau between a rocky outcrop that guards the icefall on the left and the Dome, follow the icefall, the icefall can be seen as consisting of three giant steps. First can be climb by the middle, bearing right at its top. Second camp 2 is at 6100m on the huge plateau behind the Dome. Camp 3 is at 6600m under the summit pyramid. The last Camp 4 is at 7200m. Since then many mountaineers from all over the world tried their luck including Satoshi Kawahara and Lev Loffe Russian /American team. Lev Loffe originate from Russia now teaching in America a regular visitor to Pakistan tried this peak from Normal route in 1996 from Hushe valley and manage to reach 7200m, I was part of his 1996 expedition as a Liaison Officer. Lev Loffe again return in 1999.In the same season of 1996 a Pakistani Army expedition manage to reach the summit of Masherbrum II 7806m with the help of high altitude porters, their base camp was two hours down from our main base camp. | |
| Posted Oct 8, 2009 12:50 am | ||
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