After twelve long waiting days at base camp, we finally got our chance to make a try for Broad Peak summit. We started our summit push at 11 PM in the evening of 24th July. Together with a Spanish-led expedition we were eleven climbers with headlamps on our way to the summit. It soon became clear that this was going to be a tough task due to deep snow. Whoever went first, sank in half a metre at each step. Going first were almost all the time our guides Ryan and Tomás who did a tremendous job!

At ten o’clock in the morning – after eleven hours – we were right below a col at 7800 metres which we had hoped to reach after six hours. Here suddenly clouds appeared and the wind got stronger. Since we also had to think about the long way back down, we had to take the difficult decision to turn around – after an 11 hours long tough climb, seven weeks in Pakistan, and just 250 metres below the summit.

We are now on the hike out. I will come back with pictures once we are back in civilisation.