Peter Guggemos K2 2005: The Quest for K2: K2 Status

Update 7/31/2005: Hello EverestNews.com,

This year is a bad year for climbing in Himalaya and Karakorum. Some of climbers have been lucky; like on Nanga Parbat, and some other hasn’t any chance of a small summit bid. We had a nice stay in BC together with the other climbers, Radek and Petr, etc.

The Bed weather condition and lots of snow let us make only some small attempts on this big mountain. The risk of avalanche in some section of mountain was (is) still very high. This situation obstructs push up to summit so I did abort K2 Expedition. Same as the other climbers who also relies that, there is very less chance and left the BC. Some climbers are still waiting for better weather. Hope to improve the weather and wish the best for them.

Thank you for following the Exp. report and best regards to all EverestNews.com readers. Peter

Update: News 7/17: We actually planned today 17th July; go up to the Camp I. But unfortunately it has begun again to snow since yesterday night. Right now all the K2 climbers are in Base camp and waiting for good weather. We hope that could move further up to higher camp on Monday. Peter

Updates

Peter Guggemos heads back to K2 in 2005! Peter is a very succesful climber in the Alps, Karakorum and Himalaja and vetern expedition leader. Some of the 8000 meters peaks he climbed in the last few years, Cho-Oyu 8201 meters, Shisapangma 8021 meters, Broad Peak 8047 meters, Gasherbrum II 8035 meters, Hidden Peak I 8068 meters, and Nanga Parbat 8125 meters. There was 13 summits of Makalu on his expedition in 2004. After Makalu Peter headed over to K2. Bellow is some of his pictures from K2 2004 picture show.

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