A winter season that after the deployment of the previous year in K2, seems to be in line with the great achievements of Himalayanism, at least in this particular case that we are going to expose.
Jost Kobusch, German climber who, in these times, makes us return our soul to our body, to all of us who delight in the old and always necessary forays of the highest level. Again Everest, as the main protagonist, and again the path that he left unfinished last year, on the western crest of the highest mountain in the world, where he reached a height of 7300 meters in the previous attempt.
It is not true that Everest is a less complex mountain compared to other eight thousand. At least it is not in its proper measure and in the winter season. Winter puts it in its prime. Its height, more than 200 meters above its predecessor, makes it potentially complex in the extreme season. Those two hundred, and many, many more, if we put K2 aside; added to the extreme cold, they place it where it should be. These added seasonings don't play the same role in peak season.
The fact is that it is now 28 years since the last winter conquest of the Japanese Shinsuke Ezuka on December 20, 1993. It was Krzysztof Wielicki who climbed it for the first time in winter, on February 17, 1980.
But now, Jost Kobusch, plans to scale it with a series of additional condiments that, in advance, would make his achievement truly unprecedented.
Solo, without fixed ropes and by an unusual route, with almost few possibilities of support in the event of an unforeseen event. This makes his challenge something really interesting that is going to grab all the attention of the mountain world these days.
Did you see that there were things to do in the eighth century in these times? Even renouncing traditional methods or even more so, mass calls that generally do not have a good ending.
Today, Jost has succeeded in setting up his first high-altitude pitch on the Lho La ridge, at 6000m, already at the beginning of the western ridge road. He then he descended to Lobuche where he established his head for this new attempt.
He remains a long time ahead. We have a very strong climber, a very interesting route on the highest mountain on earth. What more could we ask for?
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