UPDATE: According to the last news Martin Minarik is missing, and a Czech mountaineering source horyinfo.cz says he could be dead.
The news from April 20th: Czech mountaineer Martin Minarik and his French partner Elisabeth Revolt have topped east summit of Annapurna on Sunday April 19th, 2009.
They have descended OK to basecamp, says a brief report on the Czech version on this web Lezec.cz sourced the news by Martin Minarik´s personal side.
The expedition site in
Martin Minarik diary of expedition Annapurna 2009.
It is his 8th eighttausender:
Manaslu (8.163 m) 1999,
Kangchenjunga (8.598 m) 2002
Broad Peak (8.047 m) 2003,
Shisha Pangma (8.046 m) 2004
Cho Oju (8.201 m) - solo
Lhotse (8.516 m) 2007
Dhaulagiri (8.167 m) 2008
Annapurna (8.016 m) 2009
Source:
Blog of Martin Minarik