LinkSar is a 7,041m unclimbed peak in rarely visited 513 SHARES 493 0 19 Link Sar (7,041 meters/23,100 feet) is an unclimbed peak in the Charakusa Valley of the Karakoram mountains. Difficult to approach—or even to see possible routes in full—the peak has seen few attempts. The two men climbed the northwest face of the peak, roughly the same route followed by Griffith and American climber Kevin Mahoney last summer. However, as Griffith explained, "we topped out in a different location. Kevin and I topped out to a really horrible ridge last year, which is only something you could find out by actually being on the route. So [Andy and I] topped out further up and left on the face. We still had a short, awkward ridge section, but nothing like what me and Kevin encountered last year.” Griffith and Mahoney had climbed through several days of storm during their 2014 attempt, which Griffith described as "one of the toughest mental a...
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