The first ascent of K2, the greatest mountain on Earth, had its 60th anniversary in 2014. In Italy, more than the half-century-old triumph of the countrymen who first stood atop the 28,250-foot summit remains a source of intense national pride. At that moment, the K2 summit— the greatest mountaineering prize of the day—lay tantalizingly close to the grasp of a large Italian team. Just four years before, with the French first ascent of Nepal’s Annapurna in 1950, what would come to be called the golden age of Himalayan mountaineering had been launched. By the mid 1960s, all 14 of the world’s peaks that surpass the benchmark altitude of 8,000 meters (26,240 feet) would be climbed for the first time. Six mountaineers from Gilgit-Baltistan (G-B) are among a team that scaled the second highest peak in the world – K2 – on Saturday, ahead of the 60th anniversary of the first ascent of the mountain on July 31st karakorumexplorers.pk karakorumexplorers
Posted on: Sat, 02 Aug 2014 12:09:20 +0000
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