The North Face Journal

After their first winter ascents of Gasherbrum II, The North Face Expedition Team is getting ready for the next project: the first winter ascent of Nanga Parbat 8125 meters. This Expedition will feature only Simone Moro and Denis Urubko without Cory Richards; the third of the trio on the last GII winter ascent.

The mountain is also known with the name of “killer mountain” due the difficulties and the tragedies happen during the attempts to conquer the summit between 1930 and 1953. Also after that years a lot of fatalities involved alpinists of different nationalities.

Finally the moment we all have been waiting for! Lean back and get ready to be blown away! The North Face is proud to present the "premiere" of THIS IS MY WINTER, the FULL movie, on our website: http://bit.ly/tMnueT A movie giving mountain lovers a unique chance to experience the mountain from Xavier De Le Rue’s point of view when serious business starts. THIS IS MY WINTER feature Xavier De Le Rue, Mathieu Crepel, Andreas Fransson and Samuel Anthamatten. Watch, like and share!

Hansjörg has done it again! Last week he free soloed Bayrischer Traum (400m, 7a+), a classic multi-pitch on the Schüsselkarspitze in the Wettersteingebirge, Austria. Hansjörg says it’s not easy for him to talk about these climbs. Some call him a madman, others admire him. Either way, no one is left indifferent by what this young man does. Bayrischer Traum was a climb of personal importance to him and he must be feeling good to have “walked on the borderline between passion and sanity” again. Read his insightful blog entry: http://hansjoerg-auer.at/alone/ Plus, a great interview on Planet Mountain: http://www.planetmountain.com/english/News/shownews1.lasso?l=2&keyid=38821

The North Face® Atheletes: Simone Moro, Denis Urubko. Elevation: 8125 meters.

After their first winter ascents of Gasherbrum II, The North Face Expedition Team is getting ready for the next project: the first winter ascent of Nanga Parbat 8125 meters. This Expedition will feature only Simone Moro and Denis Urubko without Cory Richards; the third of the trio on the last GII winter ascent.

The mountain is also known with the name of “killer mountain” due the difficulties and the tragedies happen during the attempts to conquer the summit between 1930 and 1953. Also after that years a lot of fatalities involved alpinists of different nationalities.

NANGA PARBAT CLIMBING HISTORY:

- 1895 First attempt( A. Mummery) - 1953 Nanga Parbat first climb along Rakiot Face, Herman Buhl in a solo summit push. - 1962 Second climb on Diamir Face (Kinshofer) - 1970 Reinhold and Gùnter Messner climbed the Rupal face and descent the Diamir face - 1978 Solo climb of a new route along the Diamir face (Reinhold Messner) - 2005 New route in alpine style Rupal face (S.House e V. Anderson)