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High on K2: Seracs above the Bottleneck. 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.
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K2 became known as the Savage Mountain after George Bell—a climber on the 1953 American expedition—said, "It's a savage mountain that tries to kill you." [ 9 ] Of the five highest mountains in the world, K2 has long been the deadliest: prior to 2021, approximately one person had died on the mountain for every four who reached the summit .
K2 from the south. The Abruzzi Spur attempted by the expedition is the last spur before the right hand skyline. The highest point reached is the flattened part of the skyline at two-thirds height. The 1953 American Karakoram expedition was a mountaineering expedition to K2, at 8,611 metres the second highest mountain on Earth.
The Challenge of K2 a History of the Savage Mountain (ebook). Barnsley: Pen & Sword Discovery. pp. 70– 79. ISBN 978-1-84468-702-2. page numbers from Aldiko ebook reader Android app showing entire book as 305 pages. Viesturs, Ed; Roberts, David (2009). "Chapter 3. Breakthrough". K2: Life and Death on the World's Most Dangerous Mountain (ebook).
The Challenge of K2 a History of the Savage Mountain (EPUB ebook). Barnsley: Pen & Sword. ISBN 978-1-84468-702-2. page numbers from Aldiko Android app showing entire book as 305 pages. Viesturs, Ed (2009). "Chapter 6. The Price of Conquest". K2: Life and Death on the World's Most Dangerous Mountain (EPUB ebook). with Roberts, David. New York ...
The Godwin-Austen Glacier is a glacier in the Karakoram range and is close to K2, the second highest mountain peak in the world, situated in Gilgit-Baltistan region of Pakistan. Its confluence with the Baltoro Glacier [ 1 ] is called Concordia and is a popular trekking destination as it provides views of four of the five eight-thousanders in ...
The 2008 K2 disaster occurred on 1 August 2008, when 11 mountaineers from international expeditions died on K2, the second-highest mountain on Earth. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Three others were seriously injured. The series of deaths, over the course of the Friday ascent and Saturday descent, was the worst single accident in the history of K2 mountaineering.