GERMAN NAMELESS PEAK EXPEDITION LEADER HARALD GOROL
Four Germans leave for Nameless Peak for making Ist ascent
JUNE11-2000
By
Asem Mustafa Awan
ISLAMABAD
— Four member German team left for
Nameless peak in the Trango Tower region in the early hours of
Monday morning.
The
Nameless Peak offers 5718 metres and 45 year old Harald Gorol is leading
the side.
"This
will be the first attempt on the peak which offers a near vertical wall of
1500 metres," said Harald who visited Pakistan in 1994, reaching 7300
metres on Broad Peak thrice.
"The
base starts from 4000 metres and wall goes all the way up to 5000 metres
with avalanches and rock falls."
"The
grade is around 5.10," he said adding," The hardest portion of
the climb comes afterwards and it is around 500 to 600 metres of vertical
climb finishing near the summit."
All
the climbers except leader are visiting the country for the first time.
"We
will decide the route when we reach there and it can be from anywhere as
the peak is unclimbed and has no name," said Arnold Kaltwasser (37)
member of the expedition.
The
other two expedition members are Rolf Wurster (41) and Tomas Regelmann
(35).
The
group overall has been active in the alps and has done many a climbs
Europe ad South America. Tomas and Harald have made unsuccessful attempts
on Shishapangama and Broad Peak separately.
CAPTION:
German Nameless Peak expedition leader Harald Gorol first right.—Photo
by the writer