Hungarian climber Csaba Varga recently uploaded a video from the Nanga Parbat summit, which was posted to the Hazajáró Facebook page. In it, he said that the climb was exceptionally hard, and added: ‘Go Transylvania! Go Partium! Go Székely Land! Go Upper Hungary, Motherland, Southern Lands, Transcarpathia, Burgenland!’ He then pulled out a Hungarian flag with the word ‘Nagyvárad’ (Oradea), the name of his birthplace, written on it.
On Sunday, news arrived that
Csaba Varga reached the summit of Nanga Parbat, one of the highest peaks in the world.
No information came about him for a while after that, until now. It has been revealed that he had successfully descended from the summit and is doing well. Moreover, it is also confirmed that he has already reached the base camp.
The mountaineer from Oradea reached the summit of Nanga Parbat, which is located in Pakistan at an altitude of 8,125 metres (26,657 feet), at noon on Sunday. Subsequently, he began the descent towards Camp 3, located at an altitude of 6,750 metres (22,145 feet). On Monday morning, the Világgazdaság business news site reported that ‘Csaba Varga is fine, continuing the descent, and will soon reach the base camp located several thousand metres below.’
The president of the Carpathian Mountains Association in Hungary, Géza Wehner, who is one of the few people in contact with Csaba Varga, gave the information to the news site.
He also mentioned that the wind was so strong at the Nanga Parbat peak that the mountaineer could not even check in with his team. However, he was able to document his achievement on film. He then started descending and, on the way back, he was able to communicate with his wife, whom he informed about his successful ascent and well-being.
He did not report about himself afterwards until Monday morning, when he managed to contact his wife again, as well as the crew of the Hazajáró programme of the Hungarian public broadcasting company. Csaba Varga succeeded in reaching the summit without the assistance of supplemental oxygen and porters.
The 41-year-old athlete climbed for over 24 hours at an altitude of over 7,000 metres (23,000 feet),
completing part of the climb in ‘the death zone’.
Interestingly, the summit attack was launched directly from Camp 3, located at 6,750 metres, not from Camp 4 at 7,200 metres (23,600 feet). Different reasons are speculated to be behind this decision: according to certain professional circles, Camp 4 was not even established. However, Géza Wehner told Világgazdaság that Csaba Varga did not include that location due to bad weather.
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