Some things never change in climbing. Sadly, the loss of great climbers in the mountains each year is one of those things. One aspect that has changed recently, however, is the trend of the climbing community crowdfunding an often risky, expensive, and unlikely search/rescue mission to find those climbers. In most instances, the rescues end without a life saved or a body found. The story of Elisabeth Revol’s rescue on Nanga Parbat earlier this year, however, stands out as an almost unbelievable instance in which a partially crowdsourced rescue succeeded. On January 25, Elizabeth Revol of France and Tomasz Mackiewicz of Poland succeeded in reaching the summit of Nanga Parbat, the ninth highest mountain in the world, via the Diamir Face. This was a tremendous achievement and only the second time that Nanga Parbat has been climbed in winter. Elisabeth Revol On Tomasz and Elizabeth’s descent, however, the mountain inflicted […]