UIAA congratulates Nepali climbers on first successful winter ascent of K2 Tuesday, 19 January 2021
The International Climbing and Mountaineering Federation (UIAA) has congratulated a team of Nepali climbers who have become the first to mount a successful ascent of K2 in winter.
The UIAA say K2 was the only one of the commonly recognised mountains over 8,000 metres which had not be successful ascended during the winter months.
K2 is the second-highest mountain in the world at 8,611 metres.
The successful expedition was led by Mingma Gyalje Sherpa, a certified International Federation of Mountain Guides Associations guide.
Nirmal Purja Pun Magar, who climbed the fourteen 8,000m peaks in a little over six months in 2019, was also among the climbers.
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bret: michael, what was the deliverable, do you think, that vladimir putin came out of that meeting with? we probably aren t going to know all the details for that for some time. but if syria might have been the u.s. deliverable, what, potentially, is vladimir putin s? i think vladimir putin, as jonah was talking about, is probably very happy with the statements coming from secretary of state tillerson. to see to make say that there are some issues that the russians were right on and were wrong is a big coup. look at the way the russians are treating the north korea situation, using as a direct attempt to put a wedge between the united states and our close ally in south korea. they have different interest in syria, there is no evidence that that has changed in any way, the way secretaries peter muir seemed to imply next up, the friday lightning round?.