hollowmoon 发表于 2012-10-29 22:34 BD athlete reports on new route on K7's east face with Urban Novak and fello ... The Pakistani Double-Header Part 1 – Onward through the fog on the East Face of K7 巴基斯坦双向标 第一部分 穿越K7东壁迷雾,向前 Snow pelts our faces; the wind rips through to our bones as we ponder our current predicament. Kyle peers around a steep rocky corner into the unknown and shakes his head, disheartened by what he can see. We have been climbing for nearly 20 hours and there isn’t in a bivy in sight. The snow falling all around us raises the question of bailing. The climbing has taken so much that it’s either send or leave our dream of climbing the East Face of K7 behind. Kyle and I look at each other. “Maybe it’s time to call it—we are totally worked and dehydrated, and it’s storming.” Urban replies with a calm smile, “But this is what we came for. Climbing K7 was our choice. We must keep going!” The words from our Slovenian friend seem to trigger a new energy for all of us. We put our heads down and climb onward through the fog. 冻雪裹挟在脸上,冷风吹透了骨髓,我们正在估量着当前的困窘境地。Kyle反复审视一块不知通向何处的陡峭岩角,所见的景象令人沮丧,他摇了摇头。我们已经攀登了将近20个小时,而视线中还没有营地的踪影。落在我们周围的大雪引发了下撤的问题,这段攀登消耗太多了,这也使我们远离或放弃了攀登K7东壁的梦想。我和Kyle对视着:“或许是时候闪人了,我们耗尽力气而且脱水了,还有这暴风雪。” Urban带着冷静的微笑答道:“我们来这里就是为了这个,攀登K7是我们的选择,我们必须继续前进!”这个斯洛文尼亚哥们儿的话似乎激起我们新的动力,我们低下脑袋,向上攀登,穿越迷雾。
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The first time I climbed with either Kyle Dempster or Urban Novak was in 2011 in Pakistan’s Charakusa Valley. Towards the beginning of that trip Kyle and I climbed a new route on the West Face of Hassan Peak (6300m). On the summit we had an amazing view of the seldom-seen East Face of K7. As the wall dipped in and out of the clouds we could see a weakness that led right to the summit without joining any ridges—a completely independent new route on K7. After the 15-hour rappel off Hassan we were back in base camp preparing for K7. Urban’s partner wasn’t psyched to climb, but when Urban would come to visit Kyle and I could see the fire in his eyes. He was ready for a rowdy adventure in the mountains. We invited him to climb with us on K7. A Slovenian is a crucial part of the rack if you get lucky enough to have the opportunity to climb with one. 2011年在巴基斯坦Charakusa山谷,我第一次与Kyle Dempster 及Urban Novak搭档攀登。最开始我和Kyle沿Hassan峰(6300m)西壁的新路线登顶,在山顶上我们惊鸿一瞥了极少为人所见的K7东壁。当山峰在云雾之间时隐时现,我们能看到一条捷径,它直达顶峰,没有任何其他山脊相连接——这是K7上一条完全独立的新路线。15小时的绳降后,我们从Hassan峰回到大本营,开始为攀登K7做准备。Urban的搭档并没有(为这次攀登)做好心理准备,但当Urban本人来拜访我和Kyle时,我们能看到他眼里燃起的激情火焰。我们邀请他一起攀登K7,他已经为这次粗暴的冒险做好了准备。如果有幸能与一个斯洛文尼亚人搭档攀登,他会是队伍整体中一个重要的支撑。
Looking back now, I am positive that we didn’t really know what we were heading into and of course we didn’t have a plan at all. At four in the morning we left the comforts of base camp and by 10 am we had started up the East Face. Before we knew it we had climbed to about 6300m and night had fallen. We stopped to chop a ledge to sit on for a few hours. We all felt confident that the next morning we would climb to the summit, but when a thought like that enters your head the mountains slap you back to reality. In the morning we awoke to tons of fresh snow and a cold wind. The thought of climbing through the storm entered our minds but we soon realized that we were too low on the face to even consider going to the summit in such poor conditions. Spindrift pounded us as we fought our way down the mountain. 现在回想起来,我确信当时我们并不真的明白要面对什么,当然也完全没有靠谱的方案。凌晨4点,我们离开舒适的营地,10点开始攀爬K7东壁。在不知不觉中,我们已经爬到大约6300m,夜幕降临了。我们停下来,砍出一个平台,坐着歇了几个小时。大家都信心满满明早就可以爬上顶峰,但这个想法刚从我们的脑袋里冒出来,K7就一个巴掌把我们拍回现实。早上,我们在成吨的新雪和冷峭的山风中醒来。我们本想在暴风雪中继续攀登,但很快意识到此时所处的海拔太低了,以至于在如此恶劣的条件下无法虑及登顶。(于是)在雪浪的拍击中,我们杀出一条下撤的路。
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