The 1986 K2 disaster refers to a period from 6 August to 10 August 1986, when five mountaineers died on the eight-thousander K2, in the Karakoram during...
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Alberto Zerain (section The 2008 K2 Disaster)
best known as a solo alpinist and the first person to summit K2 during the 2008 K2 Disaster on 1 August. Zerain summited the mountain solo from Camp III...
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Meherban Karim (category Deaths on K2)
January 1979 – 2 August 2008) was a Pakistani mountaineer. He lost his life, along with 10 other mountaineers, in the 2008 K2 disaster, following an avalanche...
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List of deaths on eight-thousanders (category Mountaineering disasters)
extreme weather. The most deadly events on K2 were the 1986 K2 disaster, 1995 K2 disaster, and 2008 K2 disaster. As of August 2023, an estimated 800 people...
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Italian expedition to K2 (led by Ardito Desio), Achille Compagnoni and Lino Lacedelli became the first people to reach the summit of K2, 8,611 metres (28...
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triggering an avalanche which hit a camp, killing 43 people. In the August 2008 K2 disaster, the collapse of large seracs was responsible for at least 8 of the...
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Reality, 1994 2008 Graham Bowley, No way down - Life and death on K2, 2010 Marco Confortola, Giorni di ghiaccio. Agosto 2008. La tragedia del K2, 2009, ( edition)...
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Jim Wickwire (category Summiters of K2)
summit K2, the second highest mountain in the world (summit at 8,611 m (28,251 ft)). Wickwire is also known for surviving an overnight solo bivouac on K2 at...
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1954 Italian Karakoram expedition controversy (redirect from 1954 Italian K2 expedition controversy)
Lacedelli reached the summit of K2, 8,611 metres (28,251 ft), for the first time on the 1954 Italian expedition to K2 but for over fifty years the 1954...
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News. July 22, 2008. Archived from the original on September 22, 2008. Retrieved January 1, 2010. Bowley, Graham (November 13, 2010). "K2 tragedy: 'We had...
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