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Foreign Office spokesperson wished the climbers a safe return from the peak APP January 17, 2021 Known as the "savage mountain", winds on the peak can blow at more than 200 kilometres per hour. PHOTO: TWIITER/@PakistanNature ISLAMABAD: Pakistan felicitated on Sunday the team of Nepalese mountaineers for making history by reaching the summit of Pakistan’s K2, the world’s second highest mountain, in winter. Calling the expedition as “one of the most coveted achievements in mountaineering,...

outlookindia.com 2021-01-15T13:53:56+05:30 In the eyes of their intrepid wooers who repeatedly, and obsessively, answer their irresistible call, often perishing for their amour fou, mountains have different faces. Once the great alpine peaks like Matterhorn and Eiger—once thought to be the abode of dragons—had been conquered in the 1850s and ’60s by pioneering mountaineers, the next generations exerted themselves on climbing them from every possible rocky route, fiercely competing...