About the expedition

The Gasherbrum Group is located in Karakorum, between the Baltoro Glacier in the west, the Gasherbrum Glacier in the north and the Urdok Glacier in the east. Names of the five peaks encompassed by this group come from the words rgashabrum, which in Balti mean either "Beautiful Mountain" or "Shining Wall". Gasherbrum I (8,068 m a.s.l.), Hidden Peak or K5 - is the highest from the group of seven Gasherbrums. After K2, it is the second highest peak of Karakorum. The Americans, Andrew Kauffman and Pere Schoening, were the first ones to conquer the mountain in 1958. Wojciech Kurtyka and Jerzy Kukuczka were the first Poles, who summited it in 1983. They climbed in alpine style via the southwest face. The peak belongs to the group of four out of fourteen eight-thousanders that have not been conquered in winter yet. The most popular classic route leads from the west side and in the upper parts goes through the so-called "Japanese Couloir", situated in the highest part of the north-west face. This route is the aim of the expedition, whose main task is to ascend in winter for the first time in history the eleventh highest mountain in the world.

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