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Compagnoni (left) and Lacedelli, frostbitten on their return from the summit of K2. On the 1954 Italian expedition to K2 (led by Ardito Desio), Achille Compagnoni and Lino Lacedelli became the first people to reach the summit of K2, 8,611 metres (28,251 ft), the second-highest mountain in the world. They reached the summit on 31 July 1954.
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.
First woman to successfully climb K2 Wanda Rutkiewicz ( Polish pronunciation: [/ˈvanda rutˈkʲevitʂ/] 4 February 1943 – 12–13 May 1992) was a Polish mountaineer and computer engineer. [ 1 ] She was the first woman to reach the summit of K2 and the third woman (first European woman) to summit Mount Everest .
Cecilie Skog (born 1974) Norway, first female to climb Seven Summits and both Poles, Everest and K2 Laurie Skreslet (born 1949) Canada, first Canadian to summit Everest (1982) William Cecil Slingsby (1849–1929) UK, first ascent Store Skagastølstind (1876), pioneer of Norwegian mountaineering
Compagnoni (left) and Lacedelli, frostbitten on their return from the summit of K2. On 31 July 1954 Achille Compagnoni and Lino Lacedelli reached the summit of K2, 8,611 metres (28,251 ft), for the first time on the 1954 Italian expedition to K2 but for over fifty years the 1954 Italian Karakoram expedition controversy dragged on concerning whether the official report written by the expedition ...
Pete Schoening, however, returned to the Karakoram in 1958 and, with Andy Kauffman made the first ascent of Gasherbrum I; at 8080 m the highest first ascent ever made by an American team. [36] The account of the expedition, written by Bates and Houston with additional sections by the other climbers, was published in 1954 as K2 - The Savage ...
For a number of years, Knowles climbed in the Swiss Alps, in 1898 he was climbing there in the company of Oscar Eckenstein. [9] In 1902 Eckenstein led an expedition making the first serious attempt to climb K2, Knowles was a member of that party and reportedly financed most of the expedition's costs. [10]
At the time, he was the only person with a permit to climb this mountain; he came across Jerzy Kukuczka and Wojciech Kurtyka, who had permits to climb K2, but used its geographic proximity to climb Broad Peak illegally. In early descriptions of the ascent, Messner omitted this encounter, but he referred to it several years later.