Haramosh Peak

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The Haramosh (also: Haramosh peak, peak 58 ) is a mountain in the Karakoram Mountains in Pakistan. Its height is given as 7,390 or 7,406 meters.

The Haramosh forms the central - southern part of the Rakaposhi - Haramosh Mountains in miniature Karakorum. It rises steeply above the north bank of the Indus up, only slightly above its confluence with the Gilgit. A neighbor of Haramosh is the Rakaposhi.

Climbing history

The Haramosh was first explored in 1947 by a Swiss expedition, a German team examined 1955, the north-western route. 1957 tried a group of climbers from Oxford University with Tony Streather, John Emery, Bernard Jillot and Ray Cuthbert in vain a first ascent that had to be aborted after repeated falls and accidents. Jillot and Cuthbert were killed, Streather and Emery survived, Emery suffered severe frostbite and lost all his fingers and toes. The story of this expedition has Ralph Barker held in "The Last Blue Mountain ".

The first ascent of Haramosh finally succeeded on August 4, 1958 a roped party of Austrians Heinrich Roiss, Stefan Pauer and Franz Mandl over a saddle in the Northeast, the Haramosh La and the eastern flank, or about the same route the failed ascent in 1957.

According to the Himalayan Index, there was since then only three more ascents: 1978, a Japanese group on the west flank, 1979, a climb with an unknown route and origin, 1988, a Polish group on the southwestern front.