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Climbers Share Spine Chilling Experience Of Successful K2 Summit In Winter
K2 requires stark technical skills as compared to Mount Everest and other high altitude peaks as it s prone to deadly avalanches and temperature as low as -60C.
A team of sherpas set a new record for climbing the world’s second tallest K2 mountain in winters paving new achievements in the field of mountaineering on January 16. The team climbed the 28,251-foot summit located in Pakistan’s part of the Karakoram range which was never ascended before due to extremely rugged terrain, chilling temperature and speedy winds that require expertise in technical climbing. It’s a savage mountain, an American mountaineer that climbed the peak in August 1953 told Kathmandu Post.