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Csaba Varga has completed the second acclimation round. The mountaineer from Oradea (Nagyvárad, today part of Romania) is preparing to climb the world’s ninth highest peak, the 8,125-meter Nanga Parbat, in the coming days – MTI reported on Wednesday.
Csaba Varga will set off to conquer the peak in the Himalayan range of Pakistan without the use of supplementary oxygen and high-altitude load carriers. He has previously said he wanted to reach Nanga Parbat by June 30.
On Wednesday afternoon, the Facebook page of the Hazajáró (Homecomer) announced that Varga, after a few days’ rest following the first acclimation round, left the base camp at 4,200 meters at dawn on June 18 and reached Camp 2 at 6,050 meters via the Kinshofer Wall at 09:30am local time, where he spent two nights.
According to the climber, the weather was changeable: it was snowing when he reached the top, but the heat from the strong sunshine later proved a challenge.
On Tuesday morning, he continued his ascent, and after climbing a less technical but long slope, he reached Camp 3 at 6,750 m at around 01:30 p.m. As the camp is on a very steep side, he spent an hour and a half digging a tent site.
“You can see the summit very well from here. Huge slopes, giant steep walls, deep valleys. It is friendly and threatening at the same time. But beautiful,” Varga told Hazajáró about the Nanga Parbat massif.
Photo: Facebook/Hazajáró
After a stormy night, the climber headed back to base camp on Wednesday morning, arriving at 3 p.m. local time. He said he had had a very good acclimatization round in the last few days.
As they reported, the climber will now rest for a few days and then, when the weather window opens, he will summit Nanga Parbat.
The mountaineer from the Partium Region and architect
set off on June 6 for the ninth highest peak in the world, Nanga Parbat, at 8,125 meters.
Varga is the mountaineer who has reached the most peaks over 8,000 meters out of all Hungarian climbers alive today. So far, he has climbed five of them without the use of supplementary oxygen and high-mountain loads.
The mountaineer’s goal is to wave the Hungarian flag with the inscription of “Nagyvárad” on it,
on the summit of Nanga Parbat and to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Hungarian Carpathian Association.
Via MTI; Featured photo: Pixabay