Alpinist Magazine Issue 38 - Spring 2012 Accessorie

Alpinist Magazine Issue 38 - Spring 2012 AccessorieFeatures Mountain Profile: K2, Part II (19742012) For the final part of our two part series, Steve Swenson returns to the history of K2 (8611m) in 1974, as the fighting in Kashmir subsides and the Karakoram Range reopens to the outside world. The 1970s and 1980s on the world's second highest mountain are a time of intense contrasts and cultural diversity, of boldness and creativity, conflict and tragedy. Although, since the 1990s, a form of

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Martin Gutmann unfolds layers of facts and legends to see how the history of the peak still serves as an archetypical narrative for our community

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