On 4 July 2010, the Mammut athlete and skyrunner Christian Stangl will set out to conquer the second-last summit of his Second Seven Summit Tour – K2. The best-known of the second-highest mountains on all continents is not just a technical challenge, there is also constant danger on the route to the summit. Stangl has had to turn back shortly before the top on two previous attempts. In 2008, he was stopped at 8,100 metres by an avalanche, and in 2009 there was too much fresh snow from 8,300 metres. “I’m now going back for the final 300 metres,” says Stangl, before starting out on his journey to Karakorum and the 8,611 metre peak of K2. In comparison to Mount Everest with 2,400 snow-covered metres from the base camp to the summit, Stangl needs to conquer 3,600 dangerous metres of altitude on K2.
14 Seven Summits, unconquered territory
The aim of Stangl’s new project, the 14 Seven Summits, is to accomplish a completely new mountaineering challenge. With a total climbing time of 58 hours and 45 minutes, he has already scaled the highest continental peaks in record time. Now followed by the second highest: 2 x 7 = 14! As well as K2, Stangl also needs to climb Mt Tyree to become the first person to have scaled the two highest summits on each continent., we will keep you up to date with all the latest developments as they happen.
Follow the final spurt of Christian Stangl’s 14 Seven Summits Tour. Here in the Mammut Basecamp, we will keep you up to date with all the latest developments as they happen.
