K2—The Russian Route

Pavel Shabalin

Posted on: March 1, 2008

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To many alpinists, K2 is the world's hardest mountain. What to make of a team, then, that climbed its hardest route with two grandfathers and no oxygen? Siege style in the Death Zone with Grandpa Shabalin.

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