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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 India and China .
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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.
K2 Black Panther (Korean: K-2 흑표; Hanja: K-2 黑豹; RR: K-2 Heukpyo) is a South Korean fourth-generation main battle tank (MBT), designed by the Agency for Defense Development and manufactured by Hyundai Rotem.
They have been marketed as herbal incense, or "herbal smoking blends", [6] and sold under common names such as K2, spice, [8] and synthetic marijuana. [5] They are often labeled "not for human consumption" for liability defense. [ 8 ]
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On 5 February 2021, when the group reached the Bottleneck, a particularly technical part of the climb, Sajid Sadpara started feeling altitude sickness.His father, Ali Sadpara, advised him to use some oxygen from the emergency kit.
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 .