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drshahidiqbal - Jan 14, 2009 2:26 pm - Voted 10/10
ExcellentHi dear Karrar. you have put wonderful report. it is good effort to comple all data at on place and it will help other to get guidance. Congrats on this good work.
Karrar Haidri - Jan 15, 2009 10:57 am - Hasn't voted
Re: ExcellentDear Doctor Shahid, Thank you for your vote and nice comments to my contribution!Cheers.
visentin - Jan 18, 2009 5:07 am - Voted 10/10
the season for Broad Peak is not...finished... 2 Polish and 1 Canadian are attempting right now the first winter ascent of Broad Peak:
http://www.himountain.pl/wyprawa_.php?id=11
in English (google-translated) :
http://translate.google.fr/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.himountain.pl%2Fwyprawa_.php%3Fid%3D11http%3A%2F%2F&sl=pl&tl=en&hl=fr&ie=UTF-8
or :
http://www.calpinist.com/site/component/option,com_myblog/Itemid,34/
The Canadian is SP member Don Bowie :
http://www.summitpost.org/user_page.php?user_id=39048
The 2 others are Robert Szymczak and the famous polish hymalayist Artur Hajzer
Karrar Haidri - Jan 18, 2009 6:07 am - Hasn't voted
Re: the season for Broad Peak is not...Thank you for your vote and comments, Yes you are right that one expedition led by Artur Hajzer(two Polish and one Canadian) are attempting the Broad Peak, According to my information they are waiting for good weather after establishing C3, If the weather will permit they will summit Broad Peak.
The information about their expedition I already mentioned in my report i-e
Overall 12 Expeditions tried their luck on Broad Peak, out of which 07 Expeditions have been successful in putting 29 members on the summit of Broad Peak and 05 Expeditions have returned un-successful. In addition one Polish winter expedition Led by Mr. Artur trying its luck to climb Broad peak.
BigLee - Jan 18, 2009 5:28 pm - Hasn't voted
Fatalities...You may want to add that one person also died attempting Shimshal Whitehorn
Karrar Haidri - Jan 19, 2009 11:39 am - Hasn't voted
Re: Fatalities...White Horn 6303-M is a trekking peak which lies in the open zone as such the team neither need a permit nor they report to Ministry of Tourism or Alpine Club of Pakistan,Therefore the casualty of British Climber Ben Cheek who was missed in July 2008 on White Horn 6303-M not reflected in the report.
dadndave - Jan 24, 2009 6:52 pm - Voted 10/10
Interesting summary- of the years events in this fantastic area. It seems that there is a policy to prevent the kind of pressure on the environment that we see in the Khumbu Region of Nepal. Is that so? Some remarks by you on this would be interesting.
Sad to hear of 16 adventurous lives lost.
Karrar Haidri - Jan 26, 2009 11:36 am - Hasn't voted
Re: Interesting summaryThank you very much for your nice comments and vote.We are very much concerned about the negative impact on environment due to increase number of Mountaineers and Trekkers visiting Karakoram Region.
We are trying to find a solution to reduce this impact in this region.I am grateful showing your concerned in this matter.
Karrar
Member Executive Council
Alpine Club of Pakistan
Ski Mountaineer - Jan 24, 2009 11:35 pm - Hasn't voted
Luis StitzingerYou forgot Luis Stitzinger's (Germany) ascent of Nanga Parbat via the Kinshofer Route, traverse of the 10km long Mazeno ridge, and finally ski decent of a new route through the Diamir Face - all that in 25hrs. For me one of the greatest achievements in ski mountaineering history.
Karrar Haidri - Jan 26, 2009 12:04 pm - Hasn't voted
Re: Luis StitzingerThank you very much for indicating valuable information.It is definitely a unique achievement and must be reflected in records,for more detail visit
http://www.k2climb.net/news.php?id=17446
Thanks again.
Karrar