7summits Harry Kikstra climbing Everest & Chogolisa
Jun 22, 2004 14: 28 EST
This July Amsterdam climber Harry Kikstra will leave the lowlands for two expeditions in the Himalayas . He will start by climbing 7665m high Chogolisa in Pakistan together with Amsterdam climber Marian Slot and a group of South African climbers. This technical mountain that is situated opposite K2 has not been climbed since 1987 and was never climbed by Dutch climbers nor by South Africans.
Immediately following this (with only one day in the Netherlands in between) Harry will join a unique Dutch 6-person expedition to Everest via the Tibetan North East ridge. The mountain will be climbed in the cold and windy fall season; from this side if successful this will be another first for the Netherlands.
Harry has already climbed 5 of the 7 summits, the highest peaks on the seven continents. Everest can become his 6th, leaving only Antarctica’s Mt Vinson. He is owner of the website www.7summits.com. This site, which will contain reports of the climbs, inspired Dutch sculptor Ap Verheggen for his work Terra Incognita. Together Harry and Ap are working on a new work of art: scale models of the 7 summits in bronze with the summit of the models being real stones from the actual summits of the mountains. The expeditions will be filmed and photographed, culminating in a unique multimedia worldwide art project.
Image of Harry calling from the summit of Elbrus courtesy of Harry Kikstra.
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