Ural region team (Serguey Timofeev, Alexandre Korobkov, Vadim Popovich, Serguey Dashkevich, Kirill Litvinov and Andrey Vilisov)
commited to a capsule-style climb, and began living on the wall.
On 11 August they put up 5 ice pitches and 5 rock one. The portaledge sets up on 8th pitch. It was raining hard so they decided to
have a rest day to get dry
History Excursus:
Baintha Brakk (or The Ogre, 7285m) is located in the Northen Areas of Pakistan, in the Panmah Muztagh, a subrange of the Karakoram
mountain range.
The peak was first climbed via the Southwest Spur to the West Ridge, and over the West Summit to the Main Summit by two legend
britts Doug Scott and Chris Bonington in 1977 (The other members of the party were Mo Anthoine, Clive Rowland, Nick Estcourt, and
Tut Braithwaite. Estcourt, Anthoine, and Rowland all reached the lower West Summit, while Braithwaite was injured early on by
rockfall).
The week-long descent was in a strong storm, on the first rappel from the summit, Scott broke both legs, later Bonington broke two
ribs and contracted pneumonia.
The second ascent of the Ogre was made twenty-four years later by Urs Stocker, Iwan Wolf, and Thomas Huber on 21 July 2001 via
South
Pillar route. They note that there were more than 20 unsuccessful expedition ad int.