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Extreme athlete Aidan Hyman on surviving a near-death experience, traveling the world & climbing K2
Growing up, Aidan Hyman wasn’t really into athletics. Then a cute guy came along. He was captain of the high school cross ...
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The Silent Monster: The 2006 Russian Tragedy on K2
Alyona Kuznetsova hadn’t even known her husband planned to climb K2, thinking he was only scouting the mountain. Kuznetsov ...
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Two Japanese missing on K2 in Pakistan; rescue being mounted
Two Japanese climbers have gone missing while attempting to scale K2, the world’s second-highest ... slipped and fell on the 8,611-meter-high mountain in Pakistan on July 27.
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THE SUMMIT: The story of the deadliest day on the world's most dangerous mountain
When a climber falls or wanders off the trail, it's an unwritten code of the mountain to leave them for dead, according to the film. The first person to reach K2's summit was Spaniard Alberto ...
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Fearless climber’s latest goal: Scaling K2 by a new route
Talking about his latest goal of conquering K2 by a new route, Hiraide said he felt overwhelmed by the compelling power of the mountain when he went on a reconnaissance tour with Nakajima in ...
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What it's like in the death zone of Everest, K2, and other mountains
Anything over that, you really risk heading to a memorial at the bottom of the mountain. That's why on K2, I was worried about our team. Our team's summit was 16 hours. You know, when I'm looking ...
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K2: first repeat of "Magic line" dedicated to Manel De La Matta
the Catalan expedition and the first repeat of the magic line on K2, Himalaya. They too were there at Base Camp ... Manel De La Matta has gone forever, due to an "illness apparently not related to the ...