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.
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