An Evening with the American Alpine Club - Link Sar First Ascent / by Graham Zimmerman, Mark Richey, Chris Wright, and Steve Swenson [recording].

The Alpine ClubCasts head across the Atlantic for an evening with the AAC. Graham Zimmerman, Mark Richey, and Steve Swenson (guest of honour at the Alpine Club dinner in 2017) join us to talk about their brilliant first ascent of Link Sar (7,041m) in the Eastern Karakoram in Pakistan, one of the last great Himalayan problems.

Link Sar is situated in the Charakusa Valley and sits between the better known K6 and K7. After Jon Griffith and Andy Houseman’s first ascent of the North West Face of Link Sar West in 2015, a route they named 'Fever Pitch’, and an attempt by Tom Ballard and Daniele Nardi on the North East face, the main peak was finally climbed by Steve Swenson, Graham Zimmerman, Chris Wright and Mark Richey in August 2019. Steve Swenson, for whom this was the third attempt at the summit, wrote on Instagram after his 2017 attempt: 'It's a complex and dangerous mountain, and we didn't reach the top. But we made a significant effort to find a safe route that avoids the objective hazards. We plan to return so we can finish what we started.' See how they finally did just that.

Introduced by Nicholas Hurndall Smith and followed by a Q&A.