Nanga Parbat rises 8,126 metres and holds one of the deadliest records among the world’s 8,000-metre peaks. No previous expedition had connected its summit to the end of skiable snow in one unbroken line, despite multiple earlier attempts. <\/p>\n
Bargiel left Base Camp (4,200 m) at 6 a.m. on June 28, climbing without bottled oxygen and overnighting at Camp II (6,200 m) and Camp III (6,850 m). He reached the summit on June 30 and spent 45 minutes there before switching to skis. Bargiel then descended the Messner Route, navigating a serac barrier that had previously forced climbers off their skis, and completed the descent at 3 p.m. below Camp I (4,400 m). He spent two hours above 7,900 metres, inside the mountain’s death zone. The full round trip from Base Camp to summit and back took two days and nine hours. <\/p>\n
“I knew that the success of this project would depend on the right timing and the right conditions in the mountains. I’m happy that we were able to find a line that made it possible to complete the entire descent safely. I’d like to thank the whole team and Red Bull for their support,” Bargiel said. <\/p>\n
With Nanga Parbat, the Red Bull-supported athlete becomes the first person to have climbed and skied Broad Peak, K2, Gasherbrum I, Gasherbrum II, Everest and Nanga Parbat without supplemental oxygen \u2014 a project he began on Broad Peak in 2015. <\/p>\n
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