Tomasz Mackiewicz to summit Nanga Parbat in winter. While climbing with Klonowski in 2015, he reached a height of and in 2016, along with the French climber Élisabeth Revol, he reached an altitude of on Nanga Parbat. On January 25, 2018, while attempting his seventh winter ascent of Nanga Parbat, known as the "Killer Mountain", in Pakistan, at , Mackiewicz along with French climber Elisabeth Revol had reached the summit from the Diamer side. At the summit Revol noticed Mackiewicz's bad condition and started taking him down. According to Revol, he could not walk, see or even communicate and was bleeding profusely
Reinhold Messner of legal actions and disputes between former expedition members, and have still not been finally resolved. What is known now is that Reinhold and Günther Messner descended the Diamir Face, thereby achieving the first crossing of Nanga Parbat (and second crossing of an eight-thousander after Mount Everest in 1963). Reinhold arrived in the valley six days later with severe frostbite, but survived. His brother, Günther, however died on the Diamir Face—according to Reinhold Messner on the same descent, during which they became further and further separated from each other. As a result, the time, place and exact cause of death