what is
Project 5 Peaks
The Snow Leopard challenge sets the goal to climb Central Asia's five highest mountains. All are higher then 7.000m and thus only for the experienced mountaineer. In 2016 the team climbed Peak Lenin (7.134m), in 2017 they climbed Khan Tengri (7.010m) and made an unsuccessful attempt on Peak Pobeda (7.439m). In the summer of 2019 the team made a another attempt to climb Peak Pobeda, but was not able to summit due to the adverse weather. The team is currently making future plans to climb Peak Pobea, Peak Communizma (7.495m) and Peak Korjenevskaya (7.105m)!
Read more about the upcoming or past expeditions in our blogs!
last expedition
Peak Pobeda 2019
In the summer of 2019 we had planned to climb both Peak Communism (7.495m) and Peak Korzhenevskaya (7.105m). Due to problems with the helicopters in Tadzjikistan we were forced to change our plans last minute and decided to make an attempt to climb Peak Pobeda (7.439m). Unfortunately we were forced back down due to the severely bad weather and did not reach the summit.
blogs
A side effect of a busier season was that also more things happened. We know that the climbing we do is not without risk and therefore we are constantly trying to be risk-aware and learn from what we see around us from the other climbing teams. Therefore I want to share some of these stories from this season.
When we climbed Khan Tengri in 2017, we were very positive about our experience with pre-acclimatization at home with the Hypoxic tents from https://altitudedream.com (see blog 2017). This enabled us to climb Khan Tengri in one go, without having to pass the icefall multiple times - the section with the most objective dangers of the route. How was our experience with the hypoxic tents this year?
Read all about our final attempt to scale Peak Pobeda. A insane push up and a epic descent!
Part II of our Pobeda expedition report. Read all about our efforts to get as high as possible!
In the months July and July some a strange constant rumbling noise is coming from my apartment during the nights. Also my electricity bill a quite a bit higher. One could think I’m running an illegal drug lab and growing marijuana. No, not the case, I’m pre-acclimatizing at home in preparation for our expedition to Pik Korzhenevskaya and Pik Communisma, both mountains above 7.000m.
I always say that there are no easy peaks above 6.500m. In my experience at this altitude your body can no longer adapt and you need a healthy amount of character to get to the top. Pobeda however is a totally different ballgame than each of these other peaks we climbed so far.