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Pierson: Murph goes to K2: The best K2 video on the planet:
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Legendary
climb for ives Meroi and Romano Benet on K2. The climbing
couple, reached yesterday morning the summit of K2, aka
"the mountain of Italians", climbed for the first time in
1954 by Lino Lacedelli e Achille Compagnoni.
With
extraordinary commitment - Nives and Romano were the only
climbers on the Abruzzi Spur in the last tow days ! - they
left camp 4 ( at about 7.700 m. ) at 2 AM summiting
Chogorì eleven hours later. By the last news - thanks to
telephone contact got with their companions Roberto Alloi
e Mario Cedolin, at BC - we know the weather has been just
perfect, as well as the route conditions, with hard snow
and ice, that means more technical climb but not so
exhausting as for the proceeding. The latest news report
them to be already in camp 4 and resting; they are
expected to be back in BC this evening.
It's a climb
of absolute value, especially considered the approach "by
fair means" that Nives and Romano had with K2, climbed, as
usual, with no supplementary oxygen, high altitude porters
and alpine-style - this last also due to the gale that
blew away high camps during the last week. The climbers
will return to Italy around 7th-8th august. Manuel Lugli
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