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UPDATE, January 16:A team of 10 Nepali/Sherpa climbers from separate expeditions climbed the final meters to the summit together as one group at 5 p.m., completing K2 s first winter ascent. You can find our story about that here.
UPDATE, January 15:Alan Arnette reports that a new all-time winter high point has been attained 7800 meters by Mingma Gyalje Sherpa and Seven Summit Treks leaders Mingma David Sherpa, Mingma Tenzi Sherpa and Sona Sherpa. They have reached Camp 4 and hope to stand on the summit within the next 24 hours.
Rivals race to summit K2 in winter
AFP, ISLAMABAD
Dozens of mountaineers have converged on Pakistan’s mighty K2 peak, vying to conquer one of the world’s last major climbing challenges reaching the summit in winter.
Four teams with about 60 climbers and Sherpas between them have begun climbing the world’s second-highest peak known as the “savage mountain” where winds can blow at more than 200kph and temperatures drop to minus-60°C.
Since the first attempt in 1987-1988, only a handful of winter expeditions have been made on the 8,611m mountain in the Karakoram massif on the Chinese border. None of them have reached higher than 7,650m.