Kun. From July 18 to August 15 I took part in a Hauser Excursions expedition led by Martin Lutterjohann. After a difficult rubber-boat crossing of the flood-waters of the Suru River, we set up Base Camp at 14,750 feet on the left bank of the Shafat Glacier. The way to Camp I at 17,725 feet lay across glacial streams and up a dangerously crevassed glacier. Camp II was above a steep snow slope at 20,000 feet. After crossing the plateau we placed Camp III at 20,675 feet. Our first summit team failed. On August 6, 52-year-old Heinz Dengler broke trail for Lutterjohann, Götz Reisert, Rolf Martini, lochen von Benthen and Horst Wasmann up a steep, often exposed ridge to the summit of Kun (7085 meters, 23,245 feet). A Spanish expedition that was ahead of us had to withdraw because of the death of its liaison officer. A Japanese expedition that was there while we were gave up after a Japanese woman died of pulmonary edema and another Japanese died in a crevasse fall.

Wolfgang Augenstein, Deutscher Alpenverein