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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.
This route later became known as the Abruzzi Ridge (or Abruzzi Spur) and eventually became regarded as the standard route to the summit. [ 1 ] In 1929, Aimone di Savoia-Aosta , the nephew of the Duke of the Abruzzi, led an expedition to explore the upper Baltoro Glacier, near to K2.
This route later became known as the Abruzzi Ridge (or Abruzzi Spur) and eventually became regarded as the normal route to the summit. [15] In 1929, Aimone de Savola-Aosta, the nephew of the Duke of the Abruzzi, led an expedition to explore the upper Baltoro Glacier, near K2. [16]
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 .
K2 with the Abruzzi Ridge leading to right skyline [note 2] (photo Sella 1909 [note 1]) K2 is on the border between what in 1939 was the British Raj of India (now Pakistan) and the Republic of China. At 28,251 feet (8,611 m) it is the highest point of the Karakoram range and the second highest mountain in the world.
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 ...
The south side of K2 with the Abruzzi Spur route The standard route of ascent, used by 75% of all climbers, is the Abruzzi Spur, [ 110 ] [ 111 ] located on the Pakistani side, first attempted by Prince Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the Abruzzi in 1909.
The 1986 K2 disaster refers to a period from 6 August to 10 August 1986, when five mountaineers died on the eight-thousander K2, in the Karakoram during a severe storm. Eight other climbers were killed in the weeks preceding, bringing the total number of deaths that climbing season to 13.