K2
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K2, also known as Mount Godwin-Austen, at 8,611 metres above sea level, is the second-highest mountain on Earth, after Mount Everest at 8,849 metres. It lies in the Karakoram range, partially in the G
K2 from Broad Peak Base Camp
Montgomerie's original sketch from 1856 in which he applied the notation K2
View above Camp-IV of K2
The west face of K2 taken from the Savoia Glacier, on the 1909 expedition
On 31 July 1954 Achille Compagnoni and Lino Lacedelli reached the summit of K2, 8,611 metres, for the first time on the 1954 Italian expedition to K2 but for over fifty years the 1954 Italian Karakora
Compagnoni (left) and Lacedelli, frostbitten on their return from the summit of K2
Desio returning to Italy after the expedition
Oxygen equipment on summit (1954)
Bonatti in 1965