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<\/a>After several days of uncertainty, Simone Moro<\/a> has spoken out. His most important statement: \u201cNow I\u2019m feeling good.\u201d What happened? Over the weekend, Nepalese media reported that the 58-year-old top mountaineer from Italy had to be flown out of the mountains to Kathmandu by helicopter.<\/p>\n That was true, but the medical details initially reported were contradictory. In such cases, it is advisable to wait until reliable information is available. Simone himself provided that information, sitting in a tracksuit in the hospital, with a statement that he posted on Instagram<\/a>, among other places.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Moro reported that he had suffered a heart attack in the village of Khare<\/a> at the foot of the sixthousander Mera Peak. He suddenly felt severe pain in his heart and also in his left arm. Simone said that he knew immediately that it was something serious with his heart. An instant helicopter flight to the capital was not possible: \u201cSo I had to deal with this pain and this situation for all the evening and all the night.\u201d<\/p>\n The following day, he was flown to the hospital. There, doctors determined that one of his coronary arteries\u2014which supply blood to the heart muscle\u2014was blocked. The doctors cleared the artery, Simone reports, adding: \u201cThey didn\u2019t put any bypasses in, any pacemaker, any stents, nothing.\u201d He will now stay in the hospital in Kathmandu for another day and then return to Italy. \u201c. I just need some time to recover until I can start training again,\u201d Simone concludes.<\/p>\n Moro had planned to climb the 8,163-meter-high Manaslu in western Nepal this winter in alpine style together with his young Nepalese rope partner Nima Rinji Sherpa. The Italian had already failed six times in winter attempts on this mountain, mostly due to difficult weather conditions.<\/p>\n To acclimatize, Simone and Nima had climbed Mera Peak at a rapid pace. The 6,461-meter-high mountain in the Khumbu region is considered a technically easy so-called trekking mountain. Moro can only speculate about the reason for his blocked heart artery: \u201cMaybe for so many expeditions in high altitude, (which lead to) thick blood. I don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n Simone is the only mountaineer to have four winter first ascents of eight-thousanders to his name. Together with Piotr Morawski<\/a> from Poland, Moro reached the 8,027-meter-high summit of Shishapangma for the first time in the cold season in 2005. Three more winter first ascents followed: in 2009 with Kazakh-born Denis Urubko<\/a> on Makalu (8,485 m), in 2011 with Urubko and American Cory Richards<\/a> on Gasherbrum II (8,034 m), and in 2016 with Spaniard Alex Txikon<\/a> and Pakistani Muhammad Ali \u201cSadpara\u201d<\/a> on Nanga Parbat (8,125 m). Simone did not use bottled oxygen on any of these ascents.<\/p>\nBlocked heart artery<\/h2>\n
<\/a>Acclimatization for seventh winter attempt on Manaslu<\/h2>\n
<\/a>Four winter first ascents of eight-thousanders<\/h2>\n
Youngest mountaineer on all eight-thousanders \u2013 in expedition style<\/h2>\n