The Bottleneck on K2
It’s one thing to imagine the most hazardous spot on the most dangerous mountain in the world. It’s quite another to come face to face with it
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Intro
It used to be easier to disappear into mystery. Around 1988 or so, I boarded a plane north, landed late in the night, passed through Canadian customs, rented a car, and drove into a shaken snow globe of a storm, paper map and scrawled directions in hand. Cell phones and the internet were years away; … Read more
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