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In 2009, a memorial fund was set up in his honour to provide first-aid training and safe climbing technique for high-altitude porters. [15] Jason Black, from Letterkenny, County Donegal, reached the summit of K2 in July 2018, after attempting the climb on the tenth anniversary of McDonnell's death as a memorial to him. Earlier in the month ...
K2, at 8,611 metres (28,251 ft) above sea level, is the second-highest mountain on Earth, after Mount Everest at 8,849 metres (29,032 ft). [5] It lies in the Karakoram range, partially in the Gilgit-Baltistan region of Pakistan-administered Kashmir and partially in the China-administered Trans-Karakoram Tract in the Taxkorgan Tajik Autonomous County of Xinjiang.
The 1938 American Karakoram expedition to K2, more properly called the "First American Karakoram expedition", investigated several routes for reaching the summit of K2, an unclimbed mountain at 28,251 feet (8,611 m) the second highest mountain in the world. Charlie Houston was the leader of what was a small and happily united climbing party ...
Muhammad Hassan was part of a separate team climbing K2 ahead of Ms Harila’s group on 27 July. He slipped on a narrow ledge, falling several metres before becoming tangled in ropes and ...
Steindl also said that July 27 was the only day in this season on which conditions were good enough for mountaineers to reach the summit of K2, which explains why there were so many climbers who ...
K2, reaching the summit was a long-awaited goal of Nakajima and Hiraide. In 2024, Nakajima and climbing partner Kazuya Hiraide announced their intention to climb a new route to K2's West Face (8,611 m) in alpine-style. [20] Hiraide had long been public about his desire to climb K2 via a new route. [21]
A record-breaking Norwegian climber has hit out at what she calls “misinformation and hatred” surrounding claims she and her team climbed over a dying porter on K2 to summit the deadly peak ...
The Bottleneck is a location along the South-East Spur (also known as Abruzzi Spur), the most-used route to the summit of K2, the second-highest mountain in the world, in the Karakoram, on the border of Pakistan and China. The Bottleneck is a narrow couloir, which is overhung by seracs from the ice field east of the summit. The couloir is ...