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The firefighter Cartagena, Carlos Garranzo, has detailed how make his last expedition in which try to cap one of the fourteen eight-thousanders, Gasherbrum II in Pakistan. Beside him, has been the Councillor for Sports, Diego Ortega, since Cartagena City Council supports this project.
As a mountaineer, and is credited l world's highest peak, Mount Everest, with 8848 meters.
Now Garranzo going to try, for the second time and alone, the climb to the summit of 8035 meters, which marks the border between Pakistan and China, and already tried to crown her in 2000, but poor weather conditions prevented him move beyond Camp 2.
It will be on June 23 when it begins its journey to this mountain, completed on August 17.
In total 55 days, although the mountain is only 30 to 35 days, and if the weather permits, you can even exceed that goal in less time.
Just to get to base camp have to walk eight days on a glacier and hence, will head to the Normal Route or Route of the Austrians.
This peak has no great technical difficulty, in the words of Garranzo, who emphasizes that e etween the base camp and field 1 must cross the glacier, whose cracks are deeper each time.
It can take about six hours to make that stretch.
Cruise will be in the 1-2 field where technical difficulty is increased by the degree of tilt, which can reach 70 degrees.
And finally, the perfect pyramid like summit has called, and which need the strings by tilting the slopes. Ochomil No easy, remarks, but he is considered among the least complex. Garranzo expected to be completed successfully this rise, and, together with the flag of Spain, the Cartagena, crowned the highest peak in Pakistan.
But before the rise, climatological preparation is necessary that can take days, while the psychological factor is determinative.
Garranzo traveling alone on this issue, the cost is around seven thousand euros. Asked about his communication with Spain, the mountaineer said today that does not have satellite phones to go inform the family and the rest of the world over the course of his ascent to the peak in Pakistan.
The last peak crowned by this firefighter Cartagena was the Elbrus, located in the Caucasus, and is part of the Seven Summits project, consisting of reaching the highest peaks on each continent: Aconcagua, Kilimanjaro, Mount Vinson, Everest, Mc . Kinley, Kosciusko and Elbrus.
For more information sobbre Carlos issuing Garranzo can viistar this website, http://carlosgarranzo.blogspot.com.es/
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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