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11:16 AM MYT KATHMANDU, Jan. 16 (Xinhua): A mountaineering team from Nepal made history on Saturday by scaling Mt K2, the second tallest mountain in the world, located on the Pakistan-China border, in the winter.
A team of 10 climbers managed by Kathmandu-based Seven Summit Treks Pvt Ltd stood atop of the 8,611-meter peak at 5 pm local time. Mt K2 also called Chhogori was the only peak above 8,000 meters that had not been climbed in the winter. Yes, our team has created a history by being atop the second tallest peak nobody had managed to do earlier, Thaneshwor Guragain, a manager at the Seven Summit Treks, told Xinhua. Ten climbers managed by our company climbed the peak at 4:58 in the afternoon.
A team of climbers have made history by becoming the first to scale Pakistan’s K2 summit – the world’s second tallest peak – during winter. The 10 Nepalese sherpas, among them Nirmal Purja, a former Gurkha and UK special forces member who had previously climbed all 14 of the world’s 8,000-metre peaks in just over six months, successfully completed the attempt just before 5pm local time on Saturday. They had paused 70 metres short of the.