2011.02.10
It looks like Italian Simone Moro, and Denis Urubko from Kazakhstan are becoming the new leaders in a very demanding (and dominated in the past by climbers from Poland) activity - winter climbing in the Himalayas.
On February 2nd, 2011 they (along with Cory Richard from the USA) reached, in amazing style, the summit of Gasherbrum II (8036 m), the thirteenth highest mountain amongst the fourteen eight-thousanders, and the first ever climbed in winter in Karakorum.
GII (after Shisha Pangma and Makalu) is Moro's third first-winter ... |