In September, American climbers Erik Larsen and Ryan Waters twice attempted the elegant south ridge of Peak 6,166m, which lies along the ridge south of Takargo, but were halted by a difficult corniced knife-edge. They then summited the peak on September 16 via the relatively straightforward northeast flank (snow up to 55°). This appears to be the same peak, and indeed the same route, climbed in 1972 by Klaus Harder and Peter Vogler, repeated the following day by Michaela Wegert and Wolfgang Weinzieri, from the German expedition that made the first ascent of Chobutse.

Lindsay Griffin