
Daily Mountain
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With the start of this year’s main climbing season, record holding climbers are going to attempt Mt Dhaulagiri without using supplemental oxygen in an alpine style, according to the expedition organizer.
Slovakian climber Peter Hámor, 53, and Romanian alpinist Horia Dan Colibasanu, 42, have already reached the base camp of Mt Dhaulagiri to attempt to climb the mountain via the still unclimbed Northwest Ridge, according to Beni Hyoju, Expedition Director at Cho Oyu Treks.
“They are now at the Japanese base camp to open the route via Northwest Ridge on Mt Dhaulagiri,” she said adding that the three-member team also includes another Romanian alpinist 52-year-old Marius Gane.
“They will attempt to climb the seventh highest peak in the world without supplemental oxygen and Sherpa support,” she said. In 2017, Hámor, the only climber in the world who climbed Mt Annapurna twice, had successfully climbed Mt Dhaulagiri becoming the first Slovak climber to complete all 14 mountains above 8,000 m without using supplemental oxygen while Colibasanu had also stood atop the roof of the world from Tibet side becoming the first Romanian climber to Mt Everest, his eighth 8000er, without using the bottled oxygen.
This article first appeared on http://thehimalayantimes.com.The original can be read here.
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