According to a statement from the Alpine Club of Pakistan, two American nationals have made a daring summit bid on the central face of K7 (ACP).
Priti and Jeff Wright, a married American couple, were believed to have been within 100 metres of the peak when their crack they were climbing petered out. An Alpine Club official claimed, “That’s when they decided to descend.”
Although the duo did not summit, they climbed a huge new route alpine-style on a completely virgin terrain. An officer from the ACP confirmed that they had returned to the base camp.
As far as he was concerned, Priti and Jeff Wright were the first to reach the K7 central main peak.
On social media, the climbers wrote that “for good reason, nobody has ever gone up or down this central couloir, but it allowed us to descend 2000 meters of complex terrain to base camp in a day.”
