The ascent slashes by more than half the previous record for climbing K2 without the aid of bottled oxygen.
KHAPLU, Pakistan – French climber Benjamin Vedrines summited Pakistan’s K2 in record time on July 28, reaching the top of the world’s second-highest mountain in just under 11 hours.
Mr Vedrines attempted the summit in 2022 but was forced to turn back after suffering from hypoxia, a lack of oxygen in the blood caused by thin air at high altitudes. Elite climbers regard the mountain, which was first scaled in 1954, as a quintessential achievement, and often attempt to set records on its jagged slopes.
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