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Re:A Nepali team has made the first winter ascent of K2 by AniseAbyss on Sunday January 17, 2021 @01:34AM (#25808675)
Voluntarily climbing the top of a mountain is like a hobby rich people do. Later it became a matter of nationalism. A climbing expedition takes a ton of money.
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Re:A Nepali team has made the first winter ascent of K2 by nix23 on Sunday January 17, 2021 @06:26AM (#25809884)
BS. Climbing was first done by crazy Mountain Kids, then the big state sponsored expeditions started (a first that was the north and south-pole), GB missed both and shifted to the biggest mountain with GB "Won" the race, hence the name of Everest as the "third pole".

A modern (new age) expedition looks more like that (no Sherpas no help from others who don't climb):

http://www.alpinist.com/doc/ALP10/climbing-note-siegrist

Thalay Sagar with Stephan Siegrist and Rob Frost

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