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9 February, 2012 K2 Winter expedition. Russian National team.Today, in the short window between bad weather with extremely srtrong winds, the team arrived to Skardu today by heli. Details soon.

K2 Winter. Gorelik6 February, 2012 K2 Winter expedition. Russian National team. The tragedy in the expedition: today 11-30 am Vitaly Gorelik passed away in BC, from pneumonia and cardiac insufficiency. The emergency evacuation by hely couldn't been organized because of strong storm over all northern Pakistan during four days... and hely couldn't fly to K2 bottom.. Despite the best efforts of doctor Serguey Bychkovsky, they failed to save Vitaly. Our condolences to Vitaly's family and friends and all team... the expedition head Viktor Kozlov has decided to call the expedition off.

2 February, 2012 K2 Winter expedition. Russian National team.7200 m. Hurricane begins. All the team in BC. Gorelik got frostbites.

29 January, 2012 K2 Winter expedition. Russian National team.7000 m. The next task: to set C3.

27 January, 2012 Nanga Parbat winter expedition. Simone and Denis in C3

26 January, 2012 Nanga Parbat winter expedition. Simone and Denis in C2

24 January, 2012 K2 Winter expedition. Russian National team. Today morning Vladimir Belous has been evacuated by heli from BC.

23 January, 2012 K2 Winter expedition. Russian National team. New photo by Yuri Dimchuk

22 January, 2012 Both Gasherbrum I expeditions - the team led by Gerfried Geshl and Polish team led by Artur Haizer - reached BC.

22 January, 2012 K2 Winter expedition. Russian National team. two groups worked on the route in the strong wind. all returned to BC.

Mario Merelli19 January, 2012 Italian Mario Merelli died yesterday morning at 8:00am while climbing up Pizzo Redorta (Val Seriana, Bergamo). Merelli was one of the most famous Italian alpinists...Ciao, Mario... Photo by Matteo Zanga.

19 January, 2012 K2 Winter expedition. Russian National team. Eugeny Vinogradsky about the drama night in C1 during the hurricane... C1 was reset by Totmjanin's group.

15 January, 2012 K2 Winter expedition. Russian National team. Hurricane on K2. C1 was absolutely swept...

14 January, 2012 Nanga Parbat winter expedition.The reconaissance of the new way

14 January, 2012 K2 Winter expedition. Russian National team. Iljas, Vadim and Andrew set C2 at 6350 m and descended to BC

11 January, 2012 K2 Winter expedition. Russian National team.Victor Kozlov and media group arrived to BC. The team works above C1 and hope to set C2 tomorrow. Iljas and Vadim are spenging night today in C1. The team has set 37 ropes from the route beginning...

8 January, 2012 Nanga Parbat winter expedition.Night in C1

8 January, 2012 K2 Winter expedition. Russian National team. The weather's bad: snow storm, visibility 50 m in BC. Bolotov's group spent night in C1 at 6050 m

5 January, 2012 K2 Winter expedition. Russian National team. Camp 1 set at 6050 m

5 January, 2012 Nanga Parbat winter expedition. The reconaissance

3 January, 2012 K2 Winter expedition. Russian National team. 5900 m reached, - 29C on the route

3 January, 2012 Nanga Parbat winter expedition. Bace Camp set at 4230 m.

2 January, 2012 K2 Winter expedition. Russian National team. All climbers are in BC, first group reached 5600 m. Victor Kozlov with support team are in Skardu yet.