K2 does not look like the second-highest mountain in the world should look. It is not the gentle white dome of Everest seen from a distance but a brutal, pyramid-shaped mass of rock and ice rising from the Karakoram in what is now northern Pakistan — steeper, meaner, and far less forgiving of mistakes than the mountain that gets more headlines. When the Italian expedition of 1954 set out to climb it, K2 had already killed six people across multi…
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