K2, notwithstanding called Mount Godwin Austen or Chhogori is the
second most raised mountain on earth, after Mount Everest, at 8,611 meters
(28,251 feet) above sea level.
It is around 237 meters (777 feet) shorter than Everest.
K2 is composed in the Karakoram mountain go among Pakistan and
China.
The Tag K2 was given in 1852 by British surveyor T.G. Montgomerie
with "K" giving out the Karakoram Assortment and "2" since
it was the ensuing apex recorded.
The name Mount Godwin Austen is for the pinnacle's first surveyor,
Col. H.H. Godwin Austen, a nineteenth century English geographer.
The name Chhogori was proposed as a local name, got from two Balti
words: chhogo recommending 'enormous' and ri connoting 'mountain', yet its
usage has not been gigantic.
It is a fierce mountain up to 6,000 meters (19,680 feet), past
which it changes into a region of trip day.
K2 was for a long time thought about unclimbable taking into
account its exceptional stature, inside and out that truly matters strong
inclinations of rock and ice, and soak stows away.
K2 is known as the Savage Mountain thinking about the astounding
difficulty of climb.
Since K2 is slanted to visit and inconceivable tropical storms
that make the attainably dubious climbing conditions on its propensities
fundamentally all the all the all the all the more testing.
The first of a few unrewarding undertakings to show up at K2's
summit was made in 1902.
Fritz Wiessner, a stunning German climber transplanted to the US,
drove a 1939 American battle that set an imaginary world ascent record by
showing up at 8,380 meters (27,500 feet) on the Abruzzi Spur. The gathering was
656 feet from the summit before turning. Four assistants were killed.
Finally, in 1954 an Italian undertaking, drove by Ardito Desio,
succeeded. Achille Compagnoni and Lino Lacedelli, the get-together investigated
this endeavor to endeavor the last piece of the outing, are credited with
having showed up at the summit.
It has the second-most essential hardship rate among the 8,000
feet.
With around 300 useful summits and 77 fatalities, around one
individual flounder wretchedly on the mountain for every four who summit.
It is reliably angering and dangerous to show up at the peak of K2
from the Chinese side; right now, is everything viewed as move from the
Pakistani side.
There is a base camp composed on the Pakistani side from where all
the basic climbing courses start.
The standard course of rising, used unquestionably more than some
other course (75% of all climbers use this course) is the Abruzzi Spur,
composed on the Pakistani side, first tried by Prince Lugi Amideo, Duke of the
Abruzi in 1909.
It is routinely move in June, July, or August. K2 has never been
moving during winter.
For a huge area of its climbing history, K2 was not as a last
resort moved with supplemental oxygen, and little, decently lightweight
get-togethers were the standard. At any rate the 2004 season saw a dumbfounding
extension in the usage of oxygen: 28 of 47 summiteers used oxygen in that
year.
The crucial woman to summit K2 was Pole Wanda Rutkiewicz on 23
June 1986.
In 2004 the Spanish climber Carlos Soria Fontán changed into the
most settled individual ever to summit K2, at 65 years of age.
A story film, The Summit endeavors to explain the obsession with
K2, the dangers of climbing it, and the 2008 calamity.
K2: Siren of the Himalayas is a 2012 story film that follows a
gathering of climbers during their 2009 undertaking to climb K2, chronicling
the climbers' undertaking to surmount the top on the 100-year affirmation of
the Duke of Abruzzi's achievement K2 undertaking in 1909.
K2 is a 1991 film around reliant on the story of two accomplices'
hopping on K2.
The Vertical Limit is a high-adrenaline story of a young climber
who must dispatch a sketchy and outstanding rescue effort up K2, to save his
sister and her summit group in a primer of ability and consistency.
K2, having a tremendous measure of epic risings, is also a heap of
shaping.
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