and reached up to 7400m on the Abruzzi Spur route. Then in an unauthorized solo attempt, Denis Urubko reported that he probably reached up to 7600m having drawn criticism from his fellow climbers. In 2019 remarkably, on 18 July, he summited Gasherbrum II by the normal route for acclimatization for his expedition to open a new route on Gasherbrum II. After 14 days, on 1 August 2019 at 8:40 pm, he reached the summit of Gasherbrum II again via a new route without supplemental oxygen. Eight-thousander climbs Urubko completed the following successful ascents of eight-thousanders: Everest (8848 m, without oxygen south normal route; 5/24/2000) Lhotse (8516 m, without oxygen normal route; 05/23/2001). Hidden Peak (Gasherbrum 1; 8068 m, without oxygen Japanese couloir; 08/13/2001) Gasherbrum II (8035 m, without oxygen normal route speed ascent: from 5800 to top in 7 hours 30 minutes, and back to 5800 in 4 hours.; 08/20/2001) Kangchenjunga (8586 m, classical SW-face route without oxygen; 05/13/2002) Shisha Pangma (main 8046 m and Central summits (8012 m) without oxygen; 10/25/2002) Nanga Parbat (8125 m, Kinshoffer route, without oxygen; 06/17/2003) Broad Peak (8046 m, normal route without oxygen; 07/18/2003) Annapurna I (8091 m, night ascent; 05/2004) Broad Peak (8046 m, SW Face first climb, with Serguey Samoilov, in alpine style; 07/25/2005) Manaslu (8163 m, normal route, with Serguey Samoilov; 04/25/2006) Manaslu (8163 m, NE face first climb, with Serguey Samoilov; 05/08/2006) Dhaulagiri (8167 m, normal route; 02/05/2007) K2 (8611 m, WW ridge, Japanese route, with Serguey Samoilov; 02/10/2007) Makalu (8463 m; 12/05/2008) Makalu (8463 m, first winter climb, with Simone Moro; 09/02/2009) Cho Oyu (8201 m, SE Face, first climb, alpine style, with Boris Dedeshko; 05/2009) Lhotse (8516 m, new route from South Col, solo from C3; 05/16/2010) Gasherbrum II (8035 m, first winter ascent, with Simone Moro and Cory Richards; 02/02/2011) Kangchenjunga (8586 m, North Face; 05/19/2014) Gasherbrum II (8035 m, normal route; 07/18/2019) Gasherbrum II (8035 m, new route solo in 24 hours from 6100 meters to summit 08/1/2019) References External links Painting of Denis Urubko on Makalu Urubko Denis in Kyrgyzstan 1973 births Living people Summiters of all 14 eight-thousanders People from Nevinnomyssk Kazakhstani people of Russian descent Summiters of K2 Summiters of Mount Everest Ice climbers Russian mountain climbers Piolet d'Or winners