A group of climbers has summited Nanga Parbat, according to the tracker of one of them.
Several climbers set off from Camp 3 (6,700-6,900m) yesterday for a long summit day. According to Allie Pepper of Australia (who will try to reach the top tomorrow), rope fixers marched at the front, preparing the route as they climbed. Neither Seven Summit Treks nor other outfitters has reported on their teams’ progress, but individual climbers have texted their home teams via satellite. There is no Wi-Fi connection at Nanga Parbat Base Camp.
Steady progress
Dorota Rasinska-Samocko of Poland messaged her home team at 4:30 am local time, noting that her group had just crossed the high plateau before the summit pyramid. She estimated it would take them another four to five hours to top out. Her tracker subsequently verified her estimates. The signal shows steady progress, and she reached the top at 11:00 am Pakistan time. At the moment of posting this story, she is proceeding down at a good pace and nearing Camp 3.
Tracker of Dorota Rasinska-Samocko shows her progress to the summit of Nanga Parbat and back toward Camp 3.
This is Rasinska-Samocko’s second time on the summit of Nanga Parbat. She completed the 14×8,000’ers last year, becoming the first Polish woman to finish the challenge, after two busy years. She summited Nanga Parbat and six other 8,000m peaks in 2022. At the time, she was part of the group outfitted by Seven Summit Treks that maintained an intense 14×8,000m climbing schedule. It culminated in her summit of Shisha Pangma in the fall of 2024.
Not the first summits
The commercial climbers were not the first on top this time. Marek Novotny and Ondra Hlasny of the Czech Republic went ahead of the rest and summited last week on the normal route, without the fixed ropes. And on June 24, David Goettler of Germany, plus Tiphaine Duperier and Boris Langenstein of France, summited via the difficult Schell route from the Rupal side of the mountain. The French climbers then made a complete descent on skis, and Goettler paraglided back to Base Camp.
We are still waiting for news from Denis Urubko and Maria Cardell, who planned to climb a new route alpine style on the Diamir Face of the mountain.
