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K2 Sports, LLC, known simply as K2, is an American sporting goods company headquartered in Seattle, Washington focused primarily on winter sports equipment. K2 operates under the labels K2 Snow and K2 Skates, as well as its subsidiaries Backcountry Access, Ride Snowboards, Tubbs Snowshoes, Atlas Snow-Shoe Company, LINE Skis, Full Tilt Boots, and Madshus brands. [1]
K2 Snowboards are snowboards manufactured by the sports equipment company K2 Sports.K2 Sports was founded by businessman Bill Kirschner in 1962. The company manufactured some of the first sets of fiber-glass skis in the 1960s, and delivered its first lot of 250 pairs of fiberglass skis in 1964.
Line Skis, commonly shortened to Line or stylized as LINE, is a new school ski company owned by K2 Sports.Line Skis was founded by Jason Levinthal in 1995 to produce short, twin-tipped skis for freestyle skiers, and has since moved to produce full-length free skis.
The first Madshus skis were produced by Martin Madshus in 1906 in a barn in Vardal near Gjøvik. The company was moved to Lillehammer in 1936, and then to Biri in 1972. In 1988, the factory was bought by K2 Sports Inc, but the skis are still produced at Biri. Some Madshus skis have been made in China (e.g. some 2013-2014 Glittertinds).
Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner (born 13 December 1970) is an Austrian mountaineer.In August 2011, she became the second woman to climb the fourteen eight-thousanders and the first woman to do so without using supplemental oxygen or high-altitude porters.
Marker remained independent until the 1980s, since then the company ownership switched hands several times until becoming part of the K2 Sports group, which in turn was purchased by Jarden in 2007. After Jarden merged with Newell Brands , the corporate group sold Marker and other winter brands to equity firm Kohlberg & Co. in 2017.
[6] [7] Morrison was sponsored by K2 skis in 1992 and was fired by K2 Skis in 2016, during which time the company produced several models of skis bearing his namesake. Full Tilt Ski boots released him while he had a pro model bearing his name after many seasons of having such promodels.
Rolf Bae died on 1 August 2008, in a climbing accident while taking part in an international expedition on K2 mountain. [7] According to his wife, Cecilie, she saw her husband swept off the mountain during an ice fall accident. [8] Bae was a friend and teammate of Ger McDonnell, the first Irishman to summit K2. Both men died within hours of ...
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