Gasherbrum I

Timeline

• 1934 - A large international expedition, organized by the Swiss G.O. Dyhrenfurth, explores Gasherbrum I and II. Two climbers get to.
• 1936 - A French expedition gets to.
• 1958 - An American team led by Nicholas Clinch makes the first ascent, via Roch ridge.
• 1975 - Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler reached the summit on a new route in pure alpine style taking three days total. One day later, a team of three led by Austrian Hanns Schell reached the summit on the American route.
• 1977 - The fourth successful ascent by two Slovenians, again on a new route. Team member Drago Bregar died.
• 1980 - Frenchmen Maurice Barrard and Georges Narbaud are successful with the fifth ascent and pass the South Ridge for the first time.
• 1981 - A Japanese team follows the Clinch route with fixed ropes for the sixth successful ascent.
• 1982 - Michael Dacher, Siegfried Hupfauer and Günter Sturm of a German expedition summit via a new route on the north face. In the same year, French Marie-José Valençot is the first woman who reaches the summit. Her husband, Sylvain Saudan from Switzerland, performs the first ski descent from the top of an 8000-metre peak to base camp.
• 1983 - Jerzy Kukuczka with Wojciech Kurtyka, new route. Alpine style ascent without the aid of oxygen.
• 1983 - Teams from Switzerland and Spain are successful.
• 1984 - Reinhold Messner and Hans Kammerlander traverse Gasherbrum II and Gasherbrum I without returning to base camp in between
• 1985 - Solo ascent by Benoît Chamoux. On July 14, the Italian Giampiero Di Federico opens a new route on the north-west face.
• 1997 - Magnus Rydén and Johan Åkerström reach the summit.
• 2003 - 19 people reach the summit, 4 deaths, including Mohammad Oraz.
• 2012 - March 9, Adam Bielecki and Janusz Gołąb made the first winter ascent. The ascent was made without the aid of supplementary oxygen. The same day, three climbers from a different expedition — Austrian Gerfried Goschl, Swiss Cedric Hahlen and Pakistani Nisar Hussain Sadpara — went missing, never to be found again. They were trying to ascend via a new route and are considered to have been blown off by strong winds.
• 2013 - 7 July, Artur Hajzer died after falling in the Japanese Coloir after an attempt to reach the summit.
• 2013 - 21 July, Spaniards Abel Alonso, Xebi Gomez and Álvaro Paredes climbed to the top to then disappear while descending after a storm.
• 2017 - 30 July, in an alpine style six-day ascent without supplementary oxygen, Czechs Marek 'Mára' Holeček and Zdeněk Hák established a new route named Satisfaction! up the Southwest Face.