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k2 death

30 Summits & 1 Death on K2 This Past Weekend:

Over this past weekend, 30 people (including 3 Americans) summited 28,251-foot K2. This is an impressive amount of summits considering K2 has only ever seen around 300 summits ever. K2 is the most difficult mountain to climb on Earth as well as Earth’s second tallest mountain. Unfortunately, this past weekend K2 also took it’s first life of the season. Miguel Alvarez, a 46-year-old Spanish climber, was found […]

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SnowBrains | August 1, 2014
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