New Austro-Canadian Route on Nanga Parbat
After a three-month expedition to Pakistan Canadian Louis Rousseau and Austrian Gerfried Göschl have climbed a new route on Nanga Parbat and made two attempts to climb K2.The goal of the team was to forge new routes on two 8,000 meter peaks: Nanga Parbat (8,125 meters) and K2 (8,611 meters). The team consisted of Rousseau, of Montreal, Quebec, and four Austrians: Gerfried Göschl (trip leader), Sepp Bachmair, Hans Goger, and Günther Unterberger. According to Rousseau, "Günther was definitely one of the strongest among us on the new route, but suffered problems with altitude and had to return to camp 4 on summit push."