Huber Heading For Ogre

Some quick news from the Berghaus web site which is going to be carrying the latest gen including links to live news from Thomas Huber's return to Karakorum peak, the Ogre, later this summer.

Huber attempted the mountain with brother Alex back in 1999, but was unable to summit due to bad weather conditions. This time he's returning with pals Urs Stocker and Iwan Wolf for another crack at the notoriously difficult peak.

The mountain's perhaps best known to British mountaineers for the legendary 1977 epic when after Chris Bonington and Doug Scott summited the peak for the first time, they were forced into a tortured retreat after Scott broke both legs high on the mountain. With the aid of their often ignored climbing partners Mo Anthoine and Clive Rowland, Scott crawled most of the way down the mountain. To make matters worse, Bonington also fell and broke a rib.

If you have a spare few hours this summer, try tracking down 'Feeding The Rat', the highly readable biography of Mo Anthoine by Al Alvarez.

More information on the Huber Ogre project at the Berghaus web site, or from Huber's own web site - in German - which will be carrying live updates from the mountain later in the summer. For more information about the Huber brothers in English, see this section of the Berghaus site.

For more details on Chris Bonington and his climbing career see www.bonington.com