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==Timeline== * 1934 - A large international expedition, organized by the Swiss [[Günther Dyhrenfurth|G.O. Dyhrenfurth]], explores Gasherbrum I and II. Two climbers get to {{convert|6300|m|ft|-1|abbr=on}}.<ref name=g1_history/> * 1936 - A [[France|French]] expedition gets to {{convert|6900|m|ft|-1|abbr=on}}. * 1958 - An American team led by [[Nicholas Clinch]] including two Pakistani army officers captain Mohammad Akram and captain S.T.H Rizvi makes the first ascent, via Roch ridge.<ref name=clinch />{{rp|208}} * 1975 - [[Reinhold Messner]] and [[Peter Habeler]] reached the summit on a new route (northwest route) in pure [[alpine style]] (first time on an 8000-metre peak) taking three days total.<ref name=clinch />{{rp|212}} One day later, a team of three led by Austrian Hanns Schell reached the summit on the American route.<ref name=clinch />{{rp|213}} * 1977 - The fourth successful ascent by two Slovenians ({{Interlanguage link|Nejc Zaplotnik|sl}} and [[Andrej Štremfelj|Andrej Stremfelj]]), again on a new route. Team member [[Drago Bregar]] died.<ref name=clinch />{{rp|213}} * 1980 - Frenchmen [[Liliane_and_Maurice_Barrard|Maurice Barrard]] and Georges Narbaud<ref name=clinch />{{rp|213}} are successful with the fifth ascent and pass the South Ridge for the first time.<ref name=g1_history/> * 1981 - A Japanese team follows the Clinch route with fixed ropes for the sixth successful ascent.<ref name=clinch />{{rp|214}}<ref name=g1_history/> * 1982 - [[Michael Dacher]], Siegfried Hupfauer and Günter Sturm of a German expedition summit via a new route on the north face. In the same year, French Marie-José Vallençant is the first woman who reaches the summit. Her husband, [[Sylvain Saudan]] from Switzerland, performs the first ski descent from the top of an 8000-metre peak to base camp. * 1983 - [[Jerzy Kukuczka]] with [[Wojciech Kurtyka]], new route. Alpine style ascent without the aid of oxygen. * 1983 - Teams from [[Switzerland]] and [[Spain]] are successful. * 1984 - [[Reinhold Messner]] and [[Hans Kammerlander]] traverse [[Gasherbrum II]] and Gasherbrum I without returning to base camp in between * 1985 - Solo ascent by [[Benoît Chamoux]]. On July 14, the Italian Giampiero Di Federico (solo ascent) opens a new route on the north-west face.<ref>Fanshawe & Venables "Himalaya alpine-style" <!-- needs page # --></ref> * 1997 - Magnus Rydén and Johan Åkerström reach the summit. * 2003 - 19 people reach the summit, 4 deaths, including [[Mohammad Oraz]].<ref name=k2news_iran/> * 2012 - March 9, [[Adam Bielecki (climber)|Adam Bielecki]] and {{ill|Janusz Gołąb|pl}} (Poland) made the first winter ascent. The ascent was made without the aid of supplementary oxygen.<ref name=pwh/> The same day, three climbers from a different expedition — Austrian Gerfried Göschl, Swiss Cedric Hählen and Pakistani Nisar Hussain Sadpara — went missing, never to be found again. They were trying to ascend via a new route and are considered to have been blown off by strong winds.<ref name=dawn/> * 2013 - 7 July, [[Artur Hajzer]] died after falling in the Japanese Couloir after an attempt to reach the summit.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.alpinist.com/doc/web13x/newswire-artur-hajzer-gasherbrum-fall|title=Iconic Polish Climber Artur Hajzer Dies on Gasherbrum I|date=16 July 2013|last=Crothers|first=David|access-date=25 July 2018}}</ref> * 2013 - 21 July, Spaniards Abel Alonso, Xebi Gomez and Álvaro Paredes climbed to the top to then disappear while descending after a storm.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.desnivel.com/expediciones/se-da-por-desaparecidos-a-xevi-gomez-alvaro-paredes-y-abel-alonso-en-el-g1|title=Se da por desaparecidos a Xevi Góméz, Álvaro Paredes y Abel Alonso en el G1|date=26 July 2013|access-date=25 July 2018}}</ref> * 2017 - 30 July, in an alpine style six-day ascent without supplementary oxygen, Czechs [[Marek Holeček|Marek 'Mára' Holeček]] and Zdeněk Hák established a new route named Satisfaction! (in memory of [[Zdeněk Hrubý]]) up the Southwest Face.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.planetmountain.com/en/news/alpinism/gasherbrum-1-sw-face-big-new-route-by-marek-holecek-and-zdenek-hak.html|title=Gasherbrum I SW Face, big new route by Marek Holeček and Zdeněk Hák|website=Planet Mountain|date=11 August 2017|access-date=1 May 2018}}</ref>
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