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Ciao, hallo, Привет, hola, hello Baruntse!
11:04 a.m. EST Mar 16, 2004
In just 13 days, the trio of Simone Moro, Denis Urubko, and Bruno Tassi, will take off for the North Face of Baruntse. The picture to the left depicts what they’ll attempt to climb, before Simone and Denis head over to Annapurna. "There will be 2000 meters of vertical ice and rock face that we’ll try to climb in light style (alpine). The top of our face is not the real summit and for that reason we will have to continue our climb on the final ridge till the very top at 7129 meters. Our idea is to then make the descent via the North ridge (left ridge on the photo)."
Simone, as per usual for the Italian, will be sending back dispatches and pictures from the expedition. He is also proud to have his website in four different languages this spring, "My web site has English, Spanish and Italian version. In a few days I will have also the Russian version. It will be the first web site of a professional climber from west countries (not CIS) with this language version…All the news will appear in all these 4 languages + German." Bravo!!
First off, the Italian/Kazakh combo along with another Italian, Bruno Tassi, will be attempting the North Wall on Baruntse, 7129m. After getting acclimatized, Simone and Denis will then move onto Annapurna’s North Face, possibly attempting a new line on it,
Annapurna, which just peeks above the 8000m level, rising at 8091m, is the most deadly of the 8000ers. In total, only 130 climbers have summited Annapurna, while 53 have died. The overall fatality rate is thus 41%, or four and a half times that of Everest’s overall fatality rate of 9%.
Ciao - Italian
hallo - German
hola - Spanish
Привет - Russian
hello - you know this one
Image of the trio’s Baruntse route courtesy of Simone Moro.
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