Trango Towers (Urdu: ٹرینگو ٹاورز) are a family of rock towers situated in the Gilgit-Baltistan region, in the northern part of Pakistan. The Towers have...
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from north to south on the west side of the Trango Towers and joins the Baltoro Glacier. The Great Trango Tower, declared a record holder for the "greatest...
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John Middendorf (section Great Trango new route)
Dome, and in 1992 he climbed the largest rock wall in the world, Great Trango Tower. Also in the late 1980s and early 1990s, he pioneered numerous difficult...
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the summer of 1977, Galen Rowell organized a 6-man expedition to Great Trango Tower, a 20,623-foot unclimbed granite spire in Pakistan. Expedition member...
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Dæhli during an expedition with Stein P. Aasheim and Dag Kolsrud on Great Trango Tower (6286 m) in Karakoram, Pakistan, during descent, after establishing...
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film BASEclimb, about a world record setting BASE jump from The Great Trango Towers in Pakistan, won 21 International awards. This year[clarify] he led...
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and Xaver Bongard [de] climb The Grand Voyage on the East Face of Great Trango Tower in 16-days with 33-pitches, VII 5.10 A4+ WI3; at over 1,340 metres...
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Grand Teton, Wyoming, 1991 Peak 4810, Ak-Su region, Kyrgyzstan, 1995 Great Trango Tower, Pakistan, 1999, NW face, new route Other climbs Matterhorn (Alps...
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Christian Doseth (1958–1984) Norway, first ascent of the East Face of Great Trango Tower (1984), died during the descent Lord Francis Douglas (1847–1865) Scotland...
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Stein-Ivar Gravdal, Bjarte Bø and Sigurd Felde reached the top of Great Trango Tower (6286 m) in Karakoram, Pakistan, via the "Norwegian Buttress" (VII...
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John Middendorf and Xaver Bongard [de] climb The Grand Voyage, on Great Trango Tower, the world's hardest big wall climb at 5.10+, A4+, WI4. 1992 : Lynn...
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circumnavigation of Denali First one-day ascent of Kilimanjaro First ascent of Great Trango Tower in Pakistan's Karakoram Himalaya Second ascent of the Amne Machin...
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Mountain, rises 2,408 m directly from the Pacific Ocean. Trango Towers: East Face Great Trango Tower, Baltoro Muztagh, Gilgit–Baltistan, Pakistan, 1,340 m...
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big wall free soloing attracted global attention. Trango Towers, Karakoram. The Great Trango Tower's east face and east buttress form the world's longest...
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face, Karakoram, Gilgit–Baltistan, Pakistan, 2,000 m Trango Towers: East Face Great Trango Tower, Baltoro Muztagh, Gilgit–Baltistan, Pakistan, 1,340 m...
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called "Nanda Devi; the Tragic Expedition". 1977 First Ascent of Great Trango Tower with Galen Rowell, Dennis Hennek, Kim Schmitz and Jim Morrissey. 1978...
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2006. Trango Towers (Karakorum) – Normal route on Great Trango Tower (6286 m / 20 623 ft) 2006. Trango Towers (Karakorum) – Chota Badla (Trango Monk,...
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world, including during the first ascent of The Grand Voyage on the Great Trango Tower in 1992, the longest vertical big wall (1350m) in the world. The A5...
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The Grande Voyage (1,340 metres, VII 5.10 A4+ WI3), which is on the Great Trango Tower in the Himalayas. The Mountaineers (2018). Mountaineering: The Freedom...
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271. Doug Scott, A Crawl Down the Ogre, HJ 35 (1979) Dennis Hennek Great Trango Tower AAJ Vol. 21 p. 436 (1978) Langtang Lirung East Ridge, AAJ 22, 269...
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BASE jump from an altitude of 6,286 metres (20,623 ft) jump off Great Trango Towers Pakistan. It was the world's highest BASE jump off the earth at the...
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Yasinskaya (Ukraine) for their new opening of the northwest wall route Great Trango Tower (Pakistan). The 3rd edition prize was given on July 23, 2014 to the...
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2024-08-06. Grmovsek, Tanja (2007-03-01). "Trango Tower". Alpinist. Retrieved 2024-08-06. "Slovenian TranGO Towers 2006". PlanetMountain.com. Retrieved 2024-08-06...
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towers, and are famous for their aesthetic, difficult climbing. These include: Great Trango, 6,286 m Trango (Nameless) Tower, 6,239 m Uli Biaho Tower...
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Imran Junaidi (section Little Trango)
In July 2014 he successfully climbed "Little Trango", a 5,445 m (17,864 ft) granite tower in the Trango group in the Karakoram range. On reaching the...
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12a), Trango (Nameless) Tower, Karakoram, second free ascent with Jeff Lowe and David Breashears (captured in the 1990 climbing film, Nameless Tower). 1992...
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Wojciech Kurtyka (section Great Ranges)
style, (not to the summit), with Robert Schauer (Austrian) 1988 – Trango (Nameless) Tower, 6239 m (Baltoro, Karakoram), E face, new route, with Erhard Loretan...
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he completed a new route with Voytek Kurtyka on the Nameless Tower (6239m), Trango Towers, Pakistan. He continued to climb in the Alps, completing 13 peaks...
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Management for Rock Climbing (2012) Lander Rock Climbs (2015) Cirque of the Towers (2008) American Alpine Club Journal "Half Dome Free Climbed" Skinner, Todd...
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K2, the Gasherbrums, Broad Peak, and the Trango Towers, and to the huge glaciers of Baltoro, Biafo and Trango. This makes Skardu the main tourist and mountaineering...
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