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<\/a>Four attempts, four times without summit success \u2013 Nepal\u2019s eight-thousanders have once again shown their teeth this winter. After the winter expeditions on Mount Everest<\/a>, Manaslu and Annapurna I<\/a> had already come to an early end, the team from the commercial operator Makalu Adventure<\/a> has now also abandoned its attempts to reach the summit of Makalu at 8,485 meters. The climbers are on their way back to Kathmandu, the company confirmed to me.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n According to their own information, expedition leader Sanu Sherpa<\/a>, Phurba Onggel Sherpa and Pastemba Sherpa and their Iranian client Abolfazl Gozali<\/a> reached an altitude of around 7,800 meters \u2013 with bottled oxygen. Gusts of wind with speeds of around 80 kilometers per hour and icy temperatures had made a further ascent impossible, Gozali announced on Instagram<\/a>. As gale-force winds are even expected<\/a> on Makalu by the end of next week, the team abandoned the expedition.<\/p>\n This means that the first winter ascent of the fifth highest mountain on earth on 2 February 2011 by Italian Simone Moro<\/a> and Denis Urubko<\/a>, who was born in the Russian North Caucasus, \u2013 without bottled oxygen \u2013 remains the only summit success on Makalu in the cold season.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n <\/p>\n \t \n<\/div>\nGale-force winds expected<\/h2>\n