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Nepali mountaineers make first K2 winter ascent The first-ever winter scaling of K2 in Pakistan goes to 10 Nepalese Sherpas. The world's second-highest peak, known as the "savage mountain," ranks as more dangerous than Everest. Saturday marked the first time climbers reached the top of K2 in the winter The first-ever winter ascent to the summit of K2, known as Pakistan's "savage mountain" and the world's second-highest peak, has been claimed by 10 Nepalese mountaineers. "We did it," a trekking firm tweeted. "A team of 10 Nepalese Sherpas has scaled the K2 this afternoon," said Karrar Haideri...

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Mississippi raided some case stations and vape shops and t s tested the cbd products in there and they found fentanyl. so we began to wonder how big a problem is this? so we surveyed the 50 states and found in nine states, cbd products had been tested, mostly vapes but also edibles like gummies and contained k-2 or spice. so based on what we learned from the survey of the states and online discussions board which people talked about buying synthetic products or what they suspected to be synthetic products, we went out and bought products, tested 30 total and ten of them were found to contain s...

I think people maybe don't realize all of the time it takes, the training, depending on where you are from, half a world away and you take weeks to finally get up there. you wait for the window to open and then attempt the summit. can you talk about what it is like up there and how long any one individual has to breathe that thin, thin air before they've got to get back down? >> absolutely. so when you are up high on the mountain, if you are not really doing anything, you can take your oxygen mask off. so both on the top of everest but also on the top of k-2. i took my oxygen mask off for 45 m...