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How one climber's false summit claim helped turn K2 into a graveyard
High-altitude mountaineering is unforgiving in ways that don't leave room for ambiguity, ego, or misinformation. A new video ...
Back in the day, the term “false summit” meant a place that, from lower down on a mountain, looked like the top but wasn’t. It was just an optical illusion. Once a climber reached that misleading ...
Spantik (7,027m) is a popular peak in Pakistan for both foreign and local climbers. Like more famous peaks, it even draws the occasional false summit claim. The new board at the Pakistan Alpine Club ...
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