During a four day period of good weather between 11th and 14th August Alexander and Thomas Huber managed the first redpoint ascent of the
Eternal Flam, a creation of the legendary German climbing team Wolfgang Gullich and Kurt Albert from 1989.
The route Eternal Flame ((VII 5.12c/7b+ A2, Albert-Gullich-Stiegler-Sykora, 1989) takes the South Pillar of the Nameless Tower in the Trango group. Smaller and less objectively dangerous than its neighbour Great Trango, the Nameless Tower is still a huge pillar of granite, with the meat of the route rising for around 20 pitches from a large ledge system known as the Sun Terrace.
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