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Stairway to heaven - the daunting South West Pillar Route on Bhagirathi 3
'Stairway to Heaven - the daunting South West Pillar Route on Bhagirathi III (6454M) summited and named in 2004 by Walter Hölzler and Jörg Pflugmacher'
As Walter Hölzer puts it " From the summit of Shivling in 1996 I saw the challenge: to find a direct route on the ridge of Bhagirathi III, because the southwest pillar route by the Scottish team of 1982 didn’t follow the actual ridgeline of the southwest pillar. I wanted to master the route with free climbing and in alpine style. I wanted the route to be difficult and challenging, but Jörg Pflugmacher and I, both from Bavaria, also wanted to exclude any unpredictable risks to our lives. This is why we used bolts at belay stations and at dangerous points in free climbing—the style was similar to Wolfgang Güllich’s on Nameless Tower in Pakistan."
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publications.americanalpineclub.org/articles/12200537102/...
Stairway to heaven - the daunting South West Pillar Route on Bhagirathi 3
'Stairway to Heaven - the daunting South West Pillar Route on Bhagirathi III (6454M) summited and named in 2004 by Walter Hölzler and Jörg Pflugmacher'
As Walter Hölzer puts it " From the summit of Shivling in 1996 I saw the challenge: to find a direct route on the ridge of Bhagirathi III, because the southwest pillar route by the Scottish team of 1982 didn’t follow the actual ridgeline of the southwest pillar. I wanted to master the route with free climbing and in alpine style. I wanted the route to be difficult and challenging, but Jörg Pflugmacher and I, both from Bavaria, also wanted to exclude any unpredictable risks to our lives. This is why we used bolts at belay stations and at dangerous points in free climbing—the style was similar to Wolfgang Güllich’s on Nameless Tower in Pakistan."
You can read more on:
publications.americanalpineclub.org/articles/12200537102/...