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
Nanga Parbat was via the Diamir Face, in 1962, by Germans Toni Kinshofer, Siegfried Löw, and A. Mannhardt. The route is now the "standard route" on the mountain. The Kinshofer route does not ascend the middle of the Diamir Face, which is threatened by avalanches from massive hanging glaciers. Instead it climbs a buttress on the left side of the face. In 1970 the brothers Günther and Reinhold Messner made the third ascent of the mountain and the first ascent of the Rupal Face. They were unable to descend by their original route, and instead descended by the Diamir Face, making the