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K2 is regarded as a significantly more difficult and dangerous climb than Mount Everest. By August 13, 1995, the remnants of the U.S. team and Alison Hargreaves had joined forces with a New Zealand and Canadian team at Camp 4, around 7,600 metres (24,900 ft) above sea level, and at least 12 hours from the summit.
Bruce Lindsay Grant (1963–1995) was an alpine skier from New Zealand. In the 1984 Winter Olympics at Sarajevo, Grant came 31st in the downhill event. [1] His sister Christine Grant competed at the same Olympics, also in alpine skiing. On 13 August 1995, Grant died during a violent storm while descending from the summit of K2 in Pakistan.
While its summit is at a lower altitude than the summit of Mount Everest, it is considered a much harder mountain to climb due to its steep faces and extreme weather. The most deadly events on K2 were the 1986 K2 disaster, 1995 K2 disaster, and 2008 K2 disaster. As of August 2023, an estimated 800 people had completed a summit, and 96 had died ...
Robert John Slater (6 December 1960 – August 13, 1995) was an American mountaineer known for his first ascent of the big wall route Wyoming Sheep Ranch on El Capitan.An avid outdoor recreationalist, Slater made notable climbs during his college years and later as he worked as a trader on the Chicago Board of Trade and for Goldman Sachs.
K2. In June 1995, Hargreaves joined an American team with a permit to climb 8,611-metre (28,251 ft) K2. By 13 August 1995, the remnants of the US team, along with Hargreaves, had joined forces with a team from Canada and New Zealand at Camp 4, around 7,600 metres (24,900 ft) above sea level, and at least 12 hours from the summit.
K2 disaster can refer to one of several mountaineering incidents on the mountain K2: the 1986 K2 disaster; the 1995 K2 disaster; the 2008 K2 disaster;
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