【JAC】 Succeeded in climbing an unexplored peak in the Himalayas
JAC Press release: October 25, 2024 Successfully climbed an unexplored peak in the Himalayas “Japan Mountaineering Association Himalayan Camp Mountaineering Team 2024” aiming for the sacred peak
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Sanctuary Peak Himalaya Camp 2024 was aiming for Sanctuary Peak (altitude 6,207m), an unexplored peak in the Himalayas, and at 13:00 on October 19th (16:00 Japan time) we received word that we had successfully climbed the summit. This is another great achievement for the Japan Mountaineering Association, in addition to the first ascent of Pungi peak by the student club on October 12th. ■ Descend to C1 (Camp 1) on the 20th. The current location seems to be resting at the base camp. “I’m so happy that all of us were able to summit an unexplored peak for the first time! It was difficult to move as much as we had hoped at the first time at a high altitude, but it was a wonderful mountaineering experience.As soon as we got radio waves, we would like to send photos and comments from the members. I would like to post.The members are isolated in the mountains and are not expected to receive radio waves until early November.” ■ Sanctuary Peak is located in Dolpo, Western Nepal, and it takes two days by bus, one day by jeep, and eight days to reach the camp west of Kathmandu. Due to the difficulty of the approach, this area is not visited by ordinary climbers and is called Sanctuary. Sanctuary Peak is located at the innermost part of the sanctuary. ■ Member Yasuhiro Hanatani, a Piolet d’Or winner, has been training young people to become the first to climb unexplored peaks in the Himalayas. Together with young people with different experiences, such as Ayumi Matsumoto, who was fascinated by climbing, Yoshio Hasegawa, a member of the Tohoku University Mountaineering Club, Ai Hatakeyama, who aims to be a creative mountain climber, and Yudai Hiratsuka, who was a backpacker, we aim to challenge unexplored peaks. I was there.
