Everest and K2 summiter Fernando Gonzalez Rubio attempts Nanga Parbat

Fernando Gonzalez-Rubio on the Summit K2

Fernando Gonzalez is going after his 4th eight-thousand

Colombian climber Fernando González Rubio Polanco started last Monday, June 13, his adventure in Pakistan, where he will climb  Nanga Parbat, 8,125 m, the ninth highest mountain of the world.

This time Fernando will be a team for Colombia, his next expedition which will start on June 13, Nanga Parbat, called the Naked Mountain, has big altitude differences an all its faces, especially by the Rupal Face, 4,500 m, the highest wall on Earth.  Nanga Parbat is the ninth highest mountain of the world with 8,125 m, and is located in Pakistan.

His schedule starts on Monday, June 13, leaving from Bogota to Paris, London, Islamabad and Gilgit, where he will start a trek to the base camp of the mountain.

Fernando wants to climb the 14 highest mountains of the world, of over eight thousand meters of altitude, located all of them in the mountain system of the Himalayas.

Fercho wants to send a message to Colombians with this project, to make a national effort, beyond the expected to recover the union among us.  His is a message of peace.

Translated from Spanish by Jorge Rivera

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