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 climb all fourteen eight-thousanders in the world and without supplemental oxygen. His climbs were also all amongst the first 20 ascents for each mountain individually. Specifically, these are: Reinhold Messner took a total of five expeditions to Nanga Parbat. In 1970 and 1978 he reached the summit (in 1978 solo); in 1971, 1973 and 1977, he did not. In 1971 he was primarily looking for his brother's remains. In May and June 1970, Reinhold Messner took part in the Nanga Parbat South Face expedition led by Karl Herrligkoffer, the objective of which was to climb the as yet unclimbed Rupal