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On 26 August 2008 a famous Polish alpinist team of Eliza Kubarska and David Kaszlikowski sets off in Karakoram. Often called "Nameless Tower", Trango is one of the most gorgeous and highest rock spires in the world. Its vertical wall is 1200 m high. Trango is regarded one of the world's greatest alpinist challenges. The company of TS2 Satellite Technologies provides broadband and telephone communication throughout the expedition.

So far no Polish woman has managed to reach the peak of Trango Nameless Tower because of significant technical difficulties, and despite many attempts there was only one Polish man who climbed it (in 1988). The climb up Trango Nameless Tower is hard because of a particular accumulation of difficulties along its 1200 m high smooth vertical wall, capricious weather and cold. The temperature here may be of paramount importance, especially that alpinists climb with bare hands and wear special and precise though tight climbing shoes (running a risk of frostbites).

The team of famous Polish alpinists (masters of sport climbing, himalaism and alpinist climbing) not only wants to reach Trango Nameless Tower but it also intends to do it by climbing up one of the world’s most legendary walls – Eternal Flame – following a route marked out by a German team (Kurt Albert, Wolfgang Güllich) in 1989.

The participants of the expedition have climbed mountains all over the world from Alaska to Himalaya and Greenland, to the desert crags of Mali or granite Madagascar peaks. Kubarska and Kaszlikowski specialize in reaching difficult virgin peaks and marking out new alpinist routes.

The whole TRANGO TOWER expedition is going to be reported in a documentary and a photo essay. And a documentary co-produced by Polish TV and PLANETE TV is now being made to show Kubarska and Kaszlikowski’s lonely expedition to Greenland, where they reached the world’s highest cliff.

Reports from the expedition are going to be broadcast by the Polish Radio Program 3 thanks to the Inmarsat and Thuraya satellite technology.

See the website of Trango Expedition 2008

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