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Old School RuneScape is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), developed and published by Jagex.The game was released on 16 February 2013. When Old School RuneScape launched, it began as an August 2007 version of the game RuneScape, which was highly popular prior to the launch of RuneScape 3.
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 .
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.
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.
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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.
Skog studied and worked as a nurse, but since summiting Mount Everest in 2004, she has worked as a professional adventurer, guide and lecturer. In August 2008, she climbed K2. [4] Her husband, Rolf Bae, who had been climbing with her on K2, perished during the descent, as did ten other mountaineers. In a close call at the bottleneck, another ...
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