Yesterday 25 K2 summits were reported. Sherpa climber Chhang Dawa ascended his 13th 8000er, he only needs Shisha Pangma to finish the Fourteen. Catalan climber Òscar Cadiach summited his 11th 8000er, Chinese Yang Chun-Feng his 10th, Iranian Azim Gheichisaz and Chinese Rao Jian-Feng their 9th and Korean Kim Hong-Bin and Turkish climber Tunç Findik their 7th. Other summiteers were French climber Fabrice Imparato, another Chinese climber named Zhang Jing-Chuan, Singaporian climber Khoo Swee-Chiow and Nepalese Sherpa climbers Dawa Chhiri II, Dawa Sange, Dorjee, Halung Dorchi, Karma Gyalzen II, Lakpa, Mingma Dorchi, Mingma Thinduk I (second time), Mingma Thinduk II, Muktu Lhakpa (second time), Nga Tenji and Pechhumbe, also Nepalese Bhutia climber Jamling Bhote. All these climbers were led by Chhang Dawa.

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Also yesterday Polish climber Adam Bielecki summited K2.

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Austrian climber Christian Stangl reported on his website that he climbed the 20th mountain of his "Triple Seven Summits" project yesterday as well.

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And in addition today Slovak climber Peter Hámor and Czech Pavel Bém summited K2.

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Update: Korean climber Kim Mi-Gon also summited on July 31st together with Sherpa climbers Sanu and Phurba! All in all a new record of 28 summits on that day.

According to the expedition's website Sandy Allan and Rick Allen summited Nanga Parbat on Sunday July 15th. Today they arrived safely back at BC. Finally the long Mazeno Ridge route was climbed to the top of the mountain after many attempts. Congratulations!

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It will take a while until the recent Everest ascent number is confirmed, but before here is the Everest Daily table updated to 2011. It is always possible, that the one or the other ascent can be added or deleted, but this is the knowledge of the moment. Also from 2010 there is a little update, so the most Everest ascenders on a single day were not 169, but 170.

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Story updated again on June 12th, 2013:

The update became necessary because Kammerlander wrote a threatening email to the editor! Scans of historical documents in English are uploaded and more important details are added in bold letters.

(Sorry, the text is still only in German language).

The updated document you may find here.

Story updated December 3rd, 2012:

The book "Seven Second Summits" was published on November 12th. It is full of truth bending and confirmed untruth. Check the overview in German here.

Story updated August 5th, 2012:

Kammerlander reported that he summited Mount Logan now correctly. In an Italian report his manager Sigi Pircher stated, that the true high point of Mount Logan is just 12 metres higher than the point, where Kammerlander "summited" in 2010. Actually it is widely known, that the Main-Peak is 34 metres higher and 2,35 km distant to the West-Peak.  It was at least an avoidable mistake of Kammerlander to miss the Main-Peak, so why he did not just confess his error and was thankful to his critics? The opposite was the case, he insulted his critics in a German TV broadcast badly before he went to Mount Logan again. So the truth bending continues concerning Mount Logan! Check the facts here!

And what about Trikora/Mandala and Dykh Tau? If someone wants to be accepted having "written Alpine History", then he must give the public all proofs. Here are the facts that he also did not summit the Main-Peak of Puncak Trikora and that there is no evidence on his Dykh Tau claim as well.

Kammerlander is undoubtedly one of the best mountaineers of our time with many fine achievements. Why does he feel the need to be flexible with the truth? Is it just pressure from his manager and/or his sponsors? It would be really interesting to know his honest excuses. It is not too late to set the facts straight and to apologize for the insults!