Distaghil Sar
Distaghil Sar ( 1) taken from the ISS: Western ( -w), medium (-c) and eastern summit ( -e ) and the neighboring mountains Malangutti Sar ( 2), Bularung Sar (3) and Kunyang Chhish North ( 4).
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The Distaghil Sar (also Disteghil Sar ) is a mountain in the Karakoram in the north of Pakistan in Gilgit -Baltistan. He is the 19th - highest mountain in the world, the seventh - highest of Pakistan and the highest in Hispar Muztagh, one of the backbones of the Karakoram. Its summit is over two kilometers long and carries in addition to the 7885 -meter-high western summit the 7760 meter high central peak and the 7700 meter high east summit.
Climbing history
1957 failed an English roped in an attempt the mountain from the south and from west to climb the bad weather. 1959 also defeated permanently bad weather ascents by a Swiss expedition across the South West Ridge. The first ascent of Distaghil Sar succeeded in 1960 the two Austrians Günther Stronger and Diether Marc Hart. The group climbed the western part of the southern flank and then walked across the Southwest ridge to the top. The higher, western summit has since been twice (1980 and 1982 ) climbed over the original path. Two experiments on the difficult northern flank (1988 and 1998) were unsuccessful.
The first ascent of the east summit of Distaghil Sar succeeded in 1980 a Polish expedition over the east. Since then, he has only once ( 1983) wiedererstiegen.