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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 .
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On that expedition he made the first ascent of House's Chimney which he free-climbed and was subsequently named after him. [1] [2] [3] House reached the ice traverse at the top of the Abruzzi Ridge 24,700 ft (7,500 m), between camp 6 & 7, [19] which was about 400m below the expedition's high point of 26,000 ft (7,900 m) [20] [21] a little above ...
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.
1st chimney of ASARCO Copper Smelter, El Paso, Texas, US: 1965: 248: 813: Possibly demolished. 1966: 1967: Chimney of Kashira Power Plant, Kashira, USSR (now Russia) 1966 [17] [18] 250: 820: also used as electricity pylons for a 220 kV-line from the power station to the switchyard 1967: 1967: 2nd chimney of ASARCO Copper Smelter, El Paso, Texas ...
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K2 from Godwin-Austen Glacier (photo Sella 1909 [note 1]). The 1939 American Karakoram expedition to K2 was the unsuccessful second attempt by American mountaineers to climb the then-unclimbed second-highest mountain in the world, K2, following the 1938 reconnaissance expedition.
K2 from Godwin-Austen Glacier (photo Sella 1909 [note 1]). The 1938 American Karakoram expedition to K2, more properly called the "First American Karakoram expedition", investigated several routes for reaching the summit of K2, an unclimbed mountain at 28,251 feet (8,611 m) the second highest mountain in the world.