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Climbers Share Spine Chilling Experience Of Successful K2 Summit In Winter
K2 requires stark technical skills as compared to Mount Everest and other high altitude peaks as it s prone to deadly avalanches and temperature as low as -60C.
A team of sherpas set a new record for climbing the world’s second tallest K2 mountain in winters paving new achievements in the field of mountaineering on January 16. The team climbed the 28,251-foot summit located in Pakistan’s part of the Karakoram range which was never ascended before due to extremely rugged terrain, chilling temperature and speedy winds that require expertise in technical climbing. It’s a savage mountain, an American mountaineer that climbed the peak in August 1953 told Kathmandu Post.
UIAA congratulates Nepali climbers on first successful winter ascent of K2 Tuesday, 19 January 2021
The International Climbing and Mountaineering Federation (UIAA) has congratulated a team of Nepali climbers who have become the first to mount a successful ascent of K2 in winter.
The UIAA say K2 was the only one of the commonly recognised mountains over 8,000 metres which had not be successful ascended during the winter months.
K2 is the second-highest mountain in the world at 8,611 metres.
The successful expedition was led by Mingma Gyalje Sherpa, a certified International Federation of Mountain Guides Associations guide.
Nirmal Purja Pun Magar, who climbed the fourteen 8,000m peaks in a little over six months in 2019, was also among the climbers.
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Sunday felicitated the Nepalese mountaineers for making history by reaching the summit of K2 — the world’s second highest mountain — in winter.Terming the.
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Sunday felicitated the Nepalese mountaineers for making history by reaching the summit of K2 — the world’s second highest mountain — in winter. Terming the.
The team of Nepalese climbers which made history by becoming the first to summit K2 in winter. Photo courtesy: Radio Pakistan
GILGIT: Ten Nepalese climbers on Saturday set a record by scaling Pakistan’s K2 (8,611m), the world’s second highest mountain and the only one among the 8,000m peaks that had never been climbed before in winter.
The same day, however, a Spanish climber lost his life after falling into a crevasse at camp 1.
Over 60 international climbers from 18 countries had arrived at the K2 base camp and started their adventure in early January to try and scale what is also known as the Savage Mountain or the King of North, as winds there can blow at more than 200km an hour and temperatures can drop to minus 60 degrees Celsius in winter.