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
Karakoram ice from the warmth of the sun. Where there is no such insulation, the rate of retreat is high. In the last ice age, a connected series of glaciers stretched from western Tibet to Nanga Parbat, and from the Tarim basin to the Gilgit District. To the south, the Indus glacier was the main valley glacier, which flowed down from Nanga Parbat massif to elevation. In the north, the Karakoram glaciers joined those from the Kunlun Mountains and flowed down to in the Tarim basin. While the current valley glaciers in the Karakoram reach a maximum length of , several