International Climbers Conquer Nanga Parbat in Season’s First Successful Summits

ISLAMABAD — Five international climbers from Europe have achieved the first successful ascents of Pakistan’s summer mountaineering season by conquering Nanga Parbat, the world’s ninth-highest peak at 8,125 meters.

According to Ghulam Muhammad, General Manager of Blue Sky Treks and Tours, Czech climbers Marek Novotny and Ondra Hlasny scaled the peak via the traditional Diamir face route on June 26 around midday. He confirmed the climbers had descended safely and were on their way home.

Separately, renowned German alpinist David Johannes Goettler teamed up with French ski mountaineers Tiphaine Duperier and Boris Langenstein to summit the mountain on June 24 from the Rupal face, using the iconic Schell route first pioneered in 1976 by Austrian climber Hanns Schell.

Goettler made a dramatic paraglider descent from the summit, while his French partners achieved a groundbreaking feat by skiing down from the top — the first-ever ski descent from Nanga Parbat’s summit and the first from its challenging Rupal face.

Nicknamed the “Killer Mountain” for its notoriously difficult and dangerous slopes, Nanga Parbat is the first of Pakistan’s five 8,000-meter peaks to see a successful summit this season. These climbs mark the opening of what is expected to be a busy and competitive summer for international expeditions in Pakistan’s Himalayan and Karakoram ranges.

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