K2 8611-M

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K2 8611-M

K2 8611-M

Karrar Haidri
on Nov 19, 2006 9:54 am
Lat/Lon: 35.00000°N / 76.00000°E
Image Type(s): Ice Climbing
Image ID: 245266

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VaughnH

VaughnH - Dec 22, 2007 7:24 pm - Voted 10/10

Very frightening

to someone who is not an mountaineer, especially all that I have heard about it.

Karrar Haidri

Karrar Haidri - Sep 28, 2009 12:52 am - Hasn't voted

Re: Very frightening

Thanks for your visit and kind comments!Cheers.
Greetings from Pakistan

RayMondo

RayMondo - Sep 26, 2009 5:43 pm - Voted 10/10

Wonderfully lit - but

beneath such beauty lies its peril.

Karrar Haidri

Karrar Haidri - Sep 28, 2009 12:51 am - Hasn't voted

Re: Wonderfully lit - but

Thanks for your visit and vote.You are right that beaneath such beauty lies its peril. Reinhold Messner says that K2 is the most impressive but the most difficult peak in the world. It is perhaps for this reason that the locals call it Chogori, ‘the king of mountains’. K2 has variously been described as the "awesome", "killer”, "savage" and “the mountain of mountains”. Its lower face is rocky up to 6,000 meters, beyond which it becomes a vertical ocean of snow.

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