Bell was speaking in 1953, after he and his climbing partners nearly died while attempting the first ascent of the world's second highest peak. In the years since, K2 has often flashed its savage ...

Numerous successful K2 summits were registered on the 26th of July, sixty years after the first ascent of the second highest mountain in the world carried out by the historic Italian expedition.

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