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The 1995 K2 Disaster: Part 1The Cesen/Basque Route is on K2’s south-southeast spur. This route leads to the Shoulder at 7,600m, and from there, it shares the same route to the summit as the Abruzzi Route (Southeast Ridge).
After losing his longtime climbing partner in an accident in Hokkaido in 2015, Hiraide is now plotting to conquer K2, the world’s second highest peak, by a new route up the west face with a new ...
With this K2 success Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner becomes the first woman ... First climbed by a Japanese expedition in 1982, in its nigh 30 year history only 20 climbers have ascended this route to the ...
the Catalan expedition and the first repeat of the magic line on K2, Himalaya. They too were there at Base Camp ... Jordi Coromina's success - the summit at midnight on 17 August, the first repeat of ...
He said that the pair aimed for a route up the middle of K2’s west face, a path no one had attempted due to its extreme difficulty. However, another team has previously ascended a route along ...
K2 has often flashed its savage side. One of the most famous disasters came in the summer of 1995. We examine the 1995 K2 disaster in part two of a series.
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