Nanga Parbat Winter Expedition – Simone speaks about weather conditions from Basecamp

www.thenorthfacejournal.com After their first winter ascents of Gasherbrum II, The North Face® Expedition Team is now attempting the first winter ascent of Nanga Parbat 8125 meters. This Expedition features only Simone Moro and Denis Urubko without Cory Richards; the third of the trio on the last GII winter ascent. The aim of the expedition is to realize the first winter ascent of Nagna Parbat 8125 meters, a mountain 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 on Nanga Parbat.