ISLAMABAD A fly of Polish mountaineers formatting off for northern Pakistan on Sunday to start an experiment to be the first to flake K2, the world´s lieutenant highest peak, in wintertime.
Polish fly aims for history by winter scaling of K2 in Pakistan
K2, in the Karakorum instate along the border between China and Pakistan, is notorious for high winds, steep and icy gradients - and high destiny rates for climbers.
In winter months, scant snowfall criterion the pinnacle approach can turn into bare ice.
More than 70 flight have died rising the peak, dozens of them at the Bottleneck, where a offenses step can send a climber hurtling off the South Face, where corpus are unlikely to be recovered.
Team part Adam Bielecki, 34, told Reuters that the chance to makes history is a "strong motivation" for the Polish group.
Polish climbers have written a "beautiful chapter" of survey pinnacle of more than 8,000 rhythm (26,247 feet), and calcification K2 in winter would "the intestines phase of this book".
The Polish gang comprises 13 mountaineers led by Krzysztof Wielicki, 67, who in 2003 headed a winter haste of K2, which was unable to clear the 8,000 meter threshold.
K2, slightly shorter than Mount Everest, is 8,611 rhythm (28,251 feet) high.
Wielicki told Reuters that his gratuities would begin their ascent on Jan. 8 or 9 and, if successful, expect to gains to handle camp by mid-March.
Pakistan is a hot agent for climbers. It rivals Nepal for the sum of summit over 7,000 meters (22,966 feet) and in all, it has five of the world´s 14 summits higher than 8,000 meters.
Bielecki said the flight expects to be away from residence for around three months.
"If you ask me what´s the hardest fraction of the haste or what I terror the most, it´s actually the differentiation from my family," he said.