Disteghil Sar 
45km
Pakistan
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Disteghil Sar or Distaghil Sar (Urdu: دستاغل سر) is the highest mountain in the Baltin Bar Nallah Shishkat Hunza, part of the Karakoram mountain range in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. It is the 19th-highest mountain on Earth, the 7th-highest in Pakistan, and the first of the high peaks after Shishapangma to be the tallest independent summit of its own subrange. Disteghil sar is a Wakhi language word suggested by the Wakhi people of meaning "above the inner ranch." The mountain has a 3-kilometre-long (1.9 mi) top ridge above 7,400 meters elevation, with three distinct summits: Northwest, 7,885 m; Central, 7,760 m; and Southeast, 7,696m or 7,535m.
Climbing history
The first attempt to climb Distaghil Sar was made in 1957 by an English expedition led by Alf Gregory. That team attempted to climb the mountain from the south and the west, they reached 21,300 feet (6,500 m) but were defeated by bad weather. Unfavourable weather also foiled a 1959 Swiss attempt over the southeast ridge led by Raymond Lambert.
The first successful ascent was made in 1960 by Günther Stärker and Diether Marchart [de] who were part of an Austrian expedition led by Wolfgang Stefan. The expedition climbed the western part of the south face and continued over the southwest ridge to reach the highest summit on 9th June.
The eastern summit is independent of the main, western, summit and about 100m lower; it was first climbed over the east face in 1980 by a Polish expedition which included Tadeusz Piotrowski. All participants of the expedition reached the summit. It was reascended in 1983.
It was more than 20 years before a second successful ascent of the highest, western summit. The Himalayan Index lists another ascent of the peak in 1980 and a Spanish team made an ascent in 1982 by following a route close to the one taken in 1960.
Two attempts over the daunting north face, in 1988 and 1998, were unsuccessful.
An attempt on the north ridge in 2008 was abandoned soon after the party arrived because dramatic changes to the terrain, which had occurred over the previous ten years or so, had resulted in conditions becoming extremely dangerous.
See also
References
- ^ "High Asia I: The Karakoram, Pakistan Himalaya and India Himalaya (north of Nepal)". Peaklist.org. Retrieved 2014-05-27.
- "Hispar area expeditions". echidna.rutgers.edu. Archived from the original on 27 April 2008. Retrieved 15 January 2022.
- Davis, Dennis (1958). "Disteghil Sar, 1957". Himalayan Journal. #21: 108–116. Retrieved 11 June 2024.
- "Disteghil Sar 1957". MEF – Mount Everest Foundation. Retrieved 13 June 2024.
- ^ Stärker, Günther (1960). "Disteghil Sar, 1960". Himalayan Journal. #22: 120–133. Retrieved 11 June 2024.
- Stefan, Wolfgang (1961). "Disteghil Sar, 25,868 feet - The account of the Austrian Karakorum Expedition 1960" (PDF). Alpine Journal. #66 (302): 1–8. ISSN 0065-6569. Retrieved 11 June 2024.
- Kurczab, Janusz (13 July 2010). "The history of Polish climbing – Karakorum. Cz.I (1969-1980)". wspinanie.pl. Retrieved 11 June 2024.
- Prunés, Joaquim (1983). "Asia, Pakistan, Distaghil Sar, Second Ascent". American Alpine Journal. #25 (57): 280. ISBN 0930410211. ISSN 0065-6925. Retrieved 11 June 2024.
- "1998 British Distaghil Sar N Face". MEF – Mount Everest Foundation. Retrieved 13 June 2024.
- "UK-Canadian Distaghil Sar 2008". MEF – Mount Everest Foundation. Retrieved 13 June 2024.
- Normand, Bruce (2009). "Asia, Pakistan, Karakoram, Hispar Muztagh, Disteghil, Sar, Attempt". American Alpine Journal. #51 (83): 272–273. ISBN 978-1933056098. ISSN 0065-6925. Retrieved 13 June 2024.
Sources
- Hohe Siebentausender (in German)
- The Himalayan Index
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