MarthaP wrote:His partner, Toni Egger, ...no formal documentation of the climb has been recorded.

This information is new for me

I think that Martha refers that there is no summit pics though the expedition was in The American Alpine Journal, 1959, 317; La Montagne et Alpinisme 1960, 207-12; Revista del CAI 1959, 49 and 111-2; and Revista del CAI 1961, 205-11

MarthaP wrote:The Compressor Route was called that because Maestri used a gas-driven compressor to power the drill used to place bolts on the bare face. He actually left the compressor there and it was retrieved some time later, as I recall.

actually, the compressor is still up there, all rusty and old, but still hanging in there..

alex.

Anyone who thinks that Lino Lacedelli is some sort of hero for being the first person to summit K2 should acquaint themselves with the sordid details accompanying the ascent. These details are sorted out by Walter Bonatti in The Mountains of My Life and more recently by Ed Viesturs and David Roberts in K2. If these accounts are accurate, then (at least in my mind) those details and Lacedelli's long silence about them completely overshadow his climbing accomplishment.

RIP man, a great climber