First Ascent of Yazpurs Sar (6030m), Pakistan
This is an English language version of the article published by Norsk Tindeklub in the Tidsskrift for Norsk Alpinklatring 2025 . The hillside woke up a few hours after our torch lights went out. Evidently, it had set its alarm several hours ahead of the one on our watches. Immediately it made its feelings known that it didn't approve of our camping spot by casting rocks at our general location. 'Wooaaahh, that one was close!' Murilo excitedly gasped while I lay semiconscious at the opposite end of the tent. I was getting a running commentary from the tent entrance about each rock that flew down the nearby scree gully - in terms of how fast it was travelling, how large it was, and, most importantly, how close it passed by. 'Shit, that one was only about 25m away'. In resignation, we crawled out of the tent to jointly assess the situation. In a sleepy haze, I s...