First Pakistan team of climbers scale K2 summit

[SindSagar]

Re: First Pakistan team of climbers scale K2 summit

@TeenDabbyWala

How does one get to that level of climbing to be able to climb K2? I had never heard of a rock climbing gym until I came to the US, and even then rock climbing gyms were not as big of a thing as they are now.

Climbing a dry rock is much easier than climbing an ice covered rock @ 28,000 ft or more.

I cam across another interesting piece of infomation on the net:

K2, Pakistan/China

Officially K2 is the world’s second tallest mountain. However, according to some reports for a few weeks every year it actually becomes taller than Mount Everest and therefore the tallest mountain in the world. This argument is based on the fact that in the winter the mountain gets covered in a ridiculous amount of snow, which means that it is able to surpass its taller cousin- albeit very briefly.