THE 14 PEAKS OVER 8,000 METRES
Only 14 peaks in the world rise above 8,000 m, into what climbers call “the death zone”, where the air holds too little oxygen to keep a human body alive for long....
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K2 EXPEDITION | THE SECOND-HIGHEST MOUNTAIN
Altitude: 8,611 m For mountaineers, K2 is often called “the mountain of mountains”. Its isolation, its extreme weather, its altitude and the technical climbing it demands make it one of the most...
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Mount Kailash is a 6,638 m peak in western Tibet. Its almost perfectly pyramidal summit rises close to the sources of four of Asia's great rivers: the Indus, the Brahmaputra, the Sutlej...
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