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On an ice wall with just my cramp ons, and i kept slipping. my heart rate shot up, i had a full blown panic attack, ifelt like i was gonna die. i had to filter out the noise and everything. i needed to calm myself down and calm my heart rate down. at the end of the wall, there s a body there. it s really terrifying every time you see someone that had passed. cos they re like you they want to climb the mountain. they hope for the best. that was just a really scary reminder. and once we got to the very last section before you kind of have to walk on the edge and get to the summit, i was like, this is the moment, this is the moment! i was walking on that path, i get to the summit and then ijust drop my bag and for a good 30 minutes i couldn t stop crying. i m here! at the summit of k2. i couldn t believe that this is it. ....
On k2 was very minimal. anything that happens to you above base camp, you re on your own. there are choppers that can come, but they may come in five, six days. singing we are moving up to our summit rotation tonight, and they re singing because it s good weather finally. have been waiting for this day for two weeks! final hours of k2, i m sitting at my tent at camp 4, and we re supposed to be resting. before i move up, ijust can t sleep. i m so excited, i m so nervous. i m preparing for one of the most exciting moments of my life. i m ready for this. this is why i m here. the moment we set off, it was pitch black. all you can see is the trail of lights from the people ahead of us. the ice wall was a bit traumatic. i ve never done climbing ....
Gliding into town around four hours later, a little worse for wear, but looking surprisingly cheery. still to come on the travel show: another example of the lengths humans can push themselves to. i can t believe k2 s right here! we re so close! and the prison turned tourist attraction on a mexican island. so don t go away. now for the next in our series about the amazing feats of endurance that some people put themselves through in the name of adventure, and this one is pretty awesome. k2 in northern pakistan is one of the world s most dangerous mountains, and we ve been talking to the first arab woman to ever reach its summit. here s her remarkable story. ....
Woo! the weather has progressively gotten worse since yesterday. the weather on k2 is very turbulent, and that s what k2 is notorious for it can go from feeling super warm and sunny to having a full blown blizzard to then an avalanche happening, rock fall. rock fall on k2 was the scariest thing. this is a really dangerous section because there s a lot of loose rocks. rocks come flying in from 1,000 metres above you, and sometimes they re boulders, not just rocks. and you can hear them they come flying in. and they sound like helicopters.that s coming closer and closer, and it felt like a playstation game, honestly. the trail itself changes a lot. you re going from snow to ice to rock. cos the rock can break and there s rolling rocks. you don t want to roll any rocks on people underneath you. and the rope may snap. the most challenging aspect about the trip was i felt like the sense of safety ....