David Göttler

David Göttler Instagram – So, you may have guessed that we didn’t make it to the summit of Nanga Parbat. Well here is why; it wasn’t because of bad weather, nor bad conditions. We turned around because I had a bad day. That’s it. I didn’t feel how I knew I needed to feel for a summit day like that. @benjaminvedrines was going strong, and he probably could have done all the work to get us both to the summit, but then what? The descent is not straight down; there’s a long up & down traverse first. No fixed ropes of course, as we’d climbed up with just 60m of rope between us. There was no big track and no other climbers on the route: just Ben and I. That’s the beauty of climbing a route like this in a style like this. The beauty and the cruelty of it. Having a bad day means not getting to the top.
As my great friend Ueli Steck once said: “Don’t epic”.
I thought of his words. I knew if we continued I’d unleash an epic. So we turned around. Thanks Ben for being everything one could want in a climbing partner.
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