Two Italians first reached the top of K2: Lino Lacedelli and Achille Compagnoni. It was July, 31 1954.
The expedition was led by Ardito Desio.
K2, the second highest mountain, also known as the Savage Mountain, because of the difficulty of climbing it and the number of fatalities for those climbing it. At the moment, the record stands at a 1in 4 chance of being killed while on the mountain. Annapurna is the most deadly of what are called the 'Eight Thousanders', with a Death Rate of nearly 1 in 2.
After 11 attempts by various expeditions to climb it, an Italian expedition finally succeeded in ascending to the summit of K2 on July 31, 1954. The expedition was led by Ardito Desio, although the two climbers who actually reached the top were Lino Lacedelli and Achille Compagnoni.
Two Italians first reached the top of K2: Lino Lacedelli and Achille Compagnoni. It was July, 31 1954. The expedition was led by Ardito Desio.
The first woman to climb the mountain k2 was Wanda Rutkiewicz in 1986.
An Italian expedition finally succeeded in ascending to the summit of K2 via the Abruzzi Spur on 31 July 1954. The expedition was led by Ardito Desio, and the two climbers who reached the summit were Lino Lacedelli and Achille Compagnoni.
K2, the second highest mountain, also known as the Savage Mountain, because of the difficulty of climbing it and the number of fatalities for those climbing it. At the moment, the record stands at a 1in 4 chance of being killed while on the mountain. Annapurna is the most deadly of what are called the 'Eight Thousanders', with a death rate of nearly 1 in 2.
After 11 attempts by various expeditions to climb it, an Italian expedition finally succeeded in ascending to the summit of K2 on July 31, 1954. The expedition was led by Ardito Desio, although the two climbers who actually reached the top were Lino Lacedelli and Achille Compagnoni.
K2 also known as Mount Godwin-Austen is the second highest mountain in the world standing at 8,611 metres (28,251 ft). The first to reach its summit were Achille Compagnoni and Lino Lacedelli on the 31st July 1954.
Two Italians first reached the top of K2: Lino Lacedelli and Achille Compagnoni. It was July, 31 1954.
The expedition was led by Ardito Desio.
No indian has ever conquer K2 yet.
The first recorded ascent of Mount Aconcagua was in 1897 by Matthias Zurbriggen
As of today, nobody has completed a decent of k2
Lino Lacedelli and Achille Compagnoni were the first climbers to reach the summit of K2.
Lino Lacedelli and Achille Compagnoni were the first. Last can't be determined, as people are still climbing K2.
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Austin Godwin
Reinhold Messner from Italy was the first person to have reached the summit of Mount Everest and K2. Mount Everest 8th May 1978 K2 12th July 1979
Wanda Rutkiewicz
Tenzing Norgay
mark inglis climed 72 mountains but u might want to check it on the internet first .
K2 is named like that because they took the first letter of Karakorum and the number 2 because it was the second peak in the range to be measured.
The name K2 is derived from the notation used by the Great Trigonometric Survey. Thomas Montgomerie made the first survey of the Karakoram from Mount Haramukh, some 130 miles (210 km) to the south, and sketched the two most prominent peaks, labelling them K1 and K2.