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Madison also regularly guides many Seven Summits expeditions during the year such as Carstensz Pyramid, Aconcagua, Vinson Massif, Kilimanjaro and Elbrus as well as first ascents of unclimbed peaks in the Himalayas. In addition, Madison is regularly involved with film productions on Everest, participating in four different features over three ...
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 India and China. The Bottleneck is a narrow couloir, which is overhung by seracs from the ice field east of the summit. The couloir is located ...
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 ...
The rest of the team left the mountain shortly after the accident. [1] On 23 June, French climbers Liliane and Maurice Barrard reached the summit, just 30 minutes after their teammate Wanda Rutkiewicz became the first woman to summit K2. [2] Both Liliane Barrard and Rutkiewicz were climbing without bottled oxygen. [3]
Climbing Chimborazo Chimborazo is only the 39 th tallest mountain in the Andes, when measured from sea level, but there was a brief time in the 19 th century when it was thought to be the world ...
K2 from Godwin-Austen Glacier (photo Sella 1909 [note 1]). The 1939 American Karakoram expedition to K2 was the unsuccessful second attempt by American mountaineers to climb the then-unclimbed second-highest mountain in the world, K2, following the 1938 reconnaissance expedition.
House's Chimney, named after American climber Bill House, is a 30-metre (100 ft) tall crack in a rock wall, located on the Abruzzi Spur of K2, a mountain on the China–Pakistan border. The 'chimney' was first climbed, and named, when House free climbed it on the 1938 American K2 expedition .
The following is a list of books about K2, a mountain in the Karakorum Range between Pakistan and China, listed by expedition date: 1887 - British - Younghusband. Francis Younghusband, The Heart of a Continent, 1896, (Yakushi Y27) 1892 - British - Conway. Martin Conway, Climbing and Exploration in the Karakoram Himalayas, 1894, (Yakushi C336a)