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Denis Urubko, Maria Cardell Open New Route on Nanga Parbat
Jul 11, 2025
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Top Russian Climber Denis Urubko, together with his wife Maria Cardell, successfully opened a new route via Diamir Face on Nanga Parbat (8126 m) yesterday, on 10 July 2025, 11:30 PKT, according to the Russian mountain blog mountain.ru.
Attempting the fast and light alpine style climb, both scaled the mountain without using supplementary oxygen and now safely arrived back at Base Camp.
With this achievement, Urubko has made 28 ascents of the eight-thousanders, with seven new routes open and two first winter ascents, which include Makalu in 2009 and Gasherbrum II in 2011. He has also scaled all 14 highest mountains in the world without the use of supplementary oxygen.
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