A little news from my South African compatriots. Well done guys.
South Africans take Trango Tower: “South Africans take Trango Tower
29 August 2005
Four South African climbers have overcome treacherous conditions to reach the top of the sheer Trango Tower rock formation in Pakistan.
Peter Lazarus (42), Marianne Pretorius (28), James Pitman (36) and Andreas Kiefer (33) summitted the tower on Sunday 21 August. Pretorius is the third woman in the world to reach the top of Trango.
The Trango Tower lies on the Boltoro Glacier in the Karakoram mountain range of Pakistan. At an altitude of 6 250 metres and 1 200 metres high, the ‘Nameless Tower’ first attracted the attention of legendary British hard man Joe Brown during an expedition to central Karakoram in 1956.
It took 20 years before Brown, Martin Boysen, Mo Anthoine and Malcolm Howells successfully climbed the needle-like feature by its southwest face. “