Muchu Chhish, a 7,453-meter mountain in the Karakoram Range that was never climbed before, has finally been summited by three men, ExplorersWeb reported on Tuesday.

A Czech team of Zdenek Hak, Radoslav Groh, and Jaroslav Bansky took six days to climb the highest unclimbed peak in the world.

Climbers from the Czech Republic have reportedly tried to reach the summit thrice in the past four years and Groh was one of last year’s members.

“We started on July 1 after the acclimatization. We climbed via the south ridge to the main ridge, and then we continued westward to the summit. We stood on top on July 5 at 10:20 am and took one more day for the descent. [We] finally re-entered Base Camp on July 6 at 6 pm,” Zdenek Hak told ExplorersWeb, which covers environment adventure news online.

He said they climbed some 8-10 hours a day and made four bivouacs, a temporary camp without tents or cover used especially by mountaineers.

“The total length of the route from Base Camp was 20 km and 3,687 vertical meters. The length from Camp 1 to the top was 14.29 km, and the altitude gain was 2,300 m,” Haq said.

The Czech climbers have previously tried to climb Muchu Chhish, which hides in Asia’s Western Karakoram range, in 2020, 2022, 2023.

Last year, a team of Pavel Korinek, Pavel Bem, Radoslav Groh, and Tomas Petrecek nearly reached the summit before bad weather trapped them at 7,200 m at the bottom of a final rock pyramid.

They, however, retreated after running out of supplies and fuel.

A climber who fell nearly 2,000 feet down the side of Mount Taranaki on New Zealand’s North Island this weekend survived with only minor injuries. The climber, who has not been identified, was part of a group that was attempting to scale the mountain when he lost his footing and slipped. He fell down a steep slope, tumbling over rocks and ice.

According to the New Zealand Police, police were alerted that a climber had fallen while climbing with a group around the creator entrance, near the summit, at 12 p.m. on Saturday, September 9. Having watched their fellow climber slide down the mountain and out of view, another member of the group climbed down to try and locate them.

A member of the Taranaki Alpine Rescue team responded quickly to help locate a fallen climber on Mount Taranaki this weekend. The rescue member happened to be climbing in the area at the time of the accident. The climber was located by their fellow group member, and the Alpine Rescue climber had minor injuries. They had lost their ice axe and crampons during the fall. The rescue member helped the climber down the mountain, where they were reunited with the rest of their group.

“Thanks to recent spring weather, the ice had softened, and the snow caught the climbers fall. He is exceptionally lucky to be alive. These are challenging areas, and when things go wrong, there are often serious consequences,” the police said in a news release.

As per the police statement, the incident occurred in the exact location where, tragically, two climbers lost their lives two years ago.