K2 is one of 14 mountains in the world more than 8, metres 26,ft in height. You might also be interested in:. This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Elisabeth Revol describes her rescue from one of Pakistan's most deadly Himalayan mountains, Nanga Parbat. Related Topics. Pakistan Mountaineering China. Published 21 December COP Countries strike deal with coal compromise. What has the COP26 climate summit achieved? Dozens of Maoist rebels killed in India gun battle.
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Corrected the caption. Could you point us to a lo-res jpg of this watercolor? These are the only options as the K2 watercolour is in private hands. Zakir Hussain. Silly, impulsive me. Now I wait till third week of July to read it. Reply to RRA. Climbing itself is in no danger of ending, as those climbing walls attest.
But the future of mountains might require a completely different kind of sacrifice than climbers have made until now, perhaps even the sacrifice of the one thing that, in mountaineering, often rivals the value of life itself: the summit. It all depends on what people want from this pursuit.
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