Nanga Parbat, Rupal Face, Alpine-Style Attempt. Our European expedition was composed of Patrick Bérault, Michel Lassagne, Laurent Chevalier, André Muller and me, French; Laurent Cosson and Heinz Steinkötter, Italians; and Bernd Neubaur, Michael Hoffmann, Ernst Schillinger and Joachim Köninger, Germans. We hoped to climb the Rupal Face alpine-style. We were at Base Camp from July 28 to August 28, but all five attempts, the highest of which reached 23,300 feet, were foiled by bad weather.

Yannick Seigneur, Club Alpin Français