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June, 2003 news

30 June, 2003 "Ukraine - Karakorum 2003" The team is in Skardu. Alexander Lavrinenko has a Birthday yesterday - he was 35 - so we drank 1,5 litre of Cognak - for his health. We'll go to Askole July 2 by jeeps.

29 June, 2003 Nanga Parbat, Broad Peak and K2 Kazakhstan Expedition 2003: Serguey Bogomolov: some results of Nanga climb. Baglan Zhunusov: the team'll start to the K2 BC on Wednesday.

28 June, 2003 Nanga Parbat, Broad Peak and K2 Kazakhstan Expedition 2003: Simone returned to the BC from 7000 m - the Mountain wins.

28 June, 2003 "Ukraine - Karakorum 2003" Expedition to Trango Tower and Hidden Peak started to Karakorum. Two teams are going together to Skardu, and than every team will go to their base camps. Hidden Peak team (6 persons from the different Alpin clubs of Ukraine) is led by Vladislav Terzyul, who have summited 12 8000-ers (Shisha Pangma Central including). They are going to climb the new route on the South-West Face of Hidden (to complete Kukuchka route)

27 June, 2003 Two years ago, one of the most Kazakhstan climbers, Andrey Barbashinov, who summited Denali in May 2001, died June 26 in the car accident in USA. He was supported by Boukreev Memorial Fund. We published Andrey's diary about his last ascent - on Russian only...

27 June, 2003 DENIS URUBKO: Nanga Parbat report - detailed story (now on Russian only.)

27 June, 2003 Nanga Parbat, Broad Peak and K2 Kazakhstan Expedition 2003: We congratulate Ed Viesturs and JK Lafaille , who summited Nanga Parbat! The Kazakh team is going now to the Skardu, where they'll rest before the trekking to the K2 BC.

23 June, 2003 Nanga Parbat, Broad Peak and K2 Kazakhstan Expedition 2003: Simone and Lafaille climbed the new route (till 7000 m) on the Diamir Face. Lafaille and Viesturs are trying the summit, Simone returned to BC.

22 June, 2003 Karakorum photos

22 June, 2003 The legend of the woman's mountaineering Elvira Nasonova will be 62 years old on the
northernmost seven-thousander of the World - new project of Elvira and TV corporation IPV News USA

21 June, 2003 Nanga Parbat, Broad Peak and K2 Kazakhstan Expedition 2003: Yesterday, June 20, Inaci Ochoa and Gerlinde Kaltebrunner summited Nanga. CONGRATULATIONS!!!

19 June, 2003 Nanga Parbat, Broad Peak and K2 Kazakhstan Expedition 2003: Yesterday, June 18, the second group (Serguey Lavrov, Alexey Raspopov, Vassily Litvinov and Serguey Bogomolov) summited Nanga Parbat at 1-00 pm. CONGRATULATIONS!!!

17 June, 2003 Nanga Parbat, Broad Peak and K2 Kazakhstan Expedition 2003: Denis Urubko, Maxut Zhumayev, Vassily Pivtsov and Dmitry Chumakov summited Nanga Parbat today morning, 8-30 am!!! CONGRATULATIONS!!!

16 June, 2003 Nanga Parbat, Broad Peak and K2 Kazakhstan Expedition 2003: Kazakhstan climbers are preparing to the summit bid, which'll be tomorrow - news from Ervand Iljinsky

13 June, 2003

Nanga Parbat, Broad Peak and K2 Kazakhstan Expedition 2003: Zhumayev, Pivtsov, Chumakov and Urubko set the intermediate Camp 3 on 6500. 3 other members - Franco, Oscar and Mirco - will return home. News from Ervand Iljinsky and Simone Moro.

10 June, 2003 Nanga Parbat, Broad Peak and K2 Kazakhstan Expedition 2003: The nice story about Nanga Parbat with the sun and blue sky finished... Last nigh we get snowfall and wind and it continued also this morning.

9 June, 2003 Nanga Parbat, Broad Peak and K2 Kazakhstan Expedition 2003: Camp2 is set on 6100 m - dispatches from Serguey Lavrov and Simone Moro

6 June, 2003 Nanga Parbat, Broad Peak and K2 Kazakhstan Expedition 2003: dispatch from Serguey Lavrov from BC.

4 June, 2003 Nanga Parbat, Broad Peak and K2 Kazakhstan Expedition 2003: the route till Camp 2 is going well

2 June, 2003 Nanga Parbat, Broad Peak and K2 Kazakhstan Expedition 2003: Camp1 is set on 4900 m.

2 June, 2003 Some days ago was the sad date -in May 27 1997 Vladimir Bashkirov, one of the greatest Russian climbers, died when climbed Lhotse. In memory of him we publish the Anatoly Boukreev interview, which he gave just after the Bashkirov's death.

1 June, 2003 Nanga Parbat, Broad Peak and K2 Kazakhstan Expedition 2003:the first part of the team arrived to the BC