Oscar Eckenstein
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Oscar Johannes Ludwig Eckenstein was an English rock climber and mountaineer, and a pioneer in the sport of bouldering. Inventor of the modern crampon, he was an innovator in climbing technique and mo
Eckenstein in the 1890s
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
Oscar Eckenstein
…the modern crampon, he was an innovator in climbing technique and mountaineering equipment, and the leader of the first serious expedition to attempt K2. Eckenstein's father was a Jewish socialist from Bonn who had fled the Kingdom of Prussia following the failed revolution of 1848. His mother was…
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