Nancy Hansen and Ralf Dujmovits Prepare for Unclimbed 7,000-metre Karakorum Peaks
Nancy Hansen is one of Canada’s leading expedition climbers, with big trips to the Himalayas and Alaska over the past few years. She will be teaming up with Ralf Dujmovits, one of Germany’s most accomplished mountaineers and the only German to climb all 8,000 m peaks, for attempts on two peaks over 7,000 metres in the Karakorum mountain range in Pakistan. The first is the often-attempted Gasherbrum VI, which is also called Chochordin Peak and stands between 6,979 m and 7,004 m. The other is Praqpa Ri, a peak that stands between 7,134 m and 7,156 m that has no recorded attempts.
[shareprints gallery_id=”17356″ gallery_type=”thumb_slider” gallery_position=”pos_center” gallery_width=”width_100″ image_size=”large” image_padding=”0″ theme=”dark” image_hover=”false” lightbox_type=”slide” titles=”true” captions=”true” descriptions=”true” comments=”true” sharing=”true”]Hansen and Dujmovits have received the 2016 Shipton/Tilman Award and MEC Expedition Grant for their climbs. Hansen is the only person to have climbed 46 routes in the popular book Fifty Classic Climbs of North America. She is one of the few to have climbed the 54 peaks over 11,000 feet in the Rockies and she climbed the Kallen 34 on Yamnuska. They plan to post to their Instagram accounts everyday, you can link to them in the photos below.