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Spectacular first ascent on Cerro Kishtwar
In the Northwest Face
In the pictures, it almost seems like they were climbing on the legendary granite walls of El Capitan – were it not for the snow and the chilled faces. In mid-October, the two Swiss Stephan Siegrist and Julian Zanker and the German Thomas Huber first climbed the central Northwest Face of the 6,150-meter-high Cerro Kishtwar in the Indian part of the crisis region Kashmir. The three top climbers needed two attempts before reaching the summit on 14 October. It was only the fourth ascent of the remote mountain. Overall, the trio spent ten days in the extremely steep, partially overhanging wall – three days on the first attempt, seven on their successful second one.
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10. November 2017 | 9:48
Cerro Kishtwar, first ascent, Indien, Julian Zanker, Kaschmir, Northwest Face, Stephan Siegrist, Thomas Huber
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