Everest, southwest face, Park’s Korean Route

On February 27, 2010, in 2009, Central Nepal, Nepal, by lgriffin

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Everest (8,850m), southwest face, Park’s Korean Route.

By Christine Pae, Korean Alpine News, with additional material from Elizabeth Hawley, AAC Honorary Member, Nepal

At 3 p.m. on May 20, Jin Jan-chang, Kang Ki-seok, Shin Dong-min, and Park Young-seok stepped onto the summit of Everest, having completed a new route up the southwest face. This is the first new route climbed by Koreans on the mountain and their third attempt on this line, which lies left of the 1982 Soviet route…. (read more)

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