Hungarian climbers are the first to conquer a 6,000-metre peak

The Hungarian National Mountaineering Team has become the first in the world to climb the 5,984 m high Bondit Peak in Pakistan. It took great sacrifice for the determined alpinists to reach the top, some of them completed the superhuman expedition with four amputated fingers.

The Hungarian National Mountaineering Team was established three years ago, but due to the coronavirus epidemic, no expeditions could be organised until this spring. The team set off from Pakistan in July to hunt unclimbed peaks and routes in the unexplored Nangma Valley. The determined Hungarian mountaineers visited peaks that did not even have names, so some of them were named by them. Such was the 5,400m peak above the K6 base camp. Soon after, they started their journey to be the first to conquer the 5,984m Bondit Peak.

The Hungarian climbing team includes Viktor Ágoston who is a resident doctor, László Száz who works as a veterinarian and Bence Kerekes, a design engineer, living in Switzerland. All three are obsessed with mountains. However, Bence’s climbing career was in danger last March when he had to have four fingers amputated after a climb – reported by rtl.hu.

While climbing the Mönch summit, his pass iron broke at 3,711 metres. During a rest, his thick gloves fell out of his jacket and he rolled down the mountainside. The Hungarian alpinist continued climbing and descended the other side of the mountain, but Bence’s hand froze at the end of the 28-hour climb, after which he had to have four fingers amputated. In Geneva, the doctors tried to save as many of his fingers as possible. Since then, he has had seven more corrective surgeries.