{"id":6276,"date":"2024-08-03T05:57:08","date_gmt":"2024-08-03T05:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/?p=6276"},"modified":"2024-08-03T05:57:10","modified_gmt":"2024-08-03T05:57:10","slug":"french-climber-summits-pakistans-k2-in-11-hours-a-record-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/?p=6276","title":{"rendered":"French climber summits Pakistan\u2019s K2 in 11 hours, a record time"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Mr Benjamin Vedrines set a speed record climbing Pakistan\u2019s Broad Peak in 2022 before descending by paraglider. PHOTO: AFP<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

<\/a>French climber Benjamin Vedrines summited Pakistan\u2019s K2 in record time on July 28, reaching the top of the world\u2019s second-highest mountain in just under 11 hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 32-year-old specialist in high-speed ascents \u2013 made without the aid of oxygen \u2013 left K2 base camp just after midnight on July 27 and reached the summit 10 hours, 59 minutes and 59 seconds later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ascent slashes by more than half the previous record for climbing K2 without the aid of bottled oxygen, completed in 23 hours by another Frenchman, Mr Benoit Chamoux, in 1986.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI took my revenge on this mountain,\u201d Mr Vedrines said in a voice message shared with Agence France-Presse. \u201cBut, above all, I wanted to reconcile with it by doing things with maturity.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt was very symbolic for me because I was returning in my footsteps to where I experienced those very unique moments,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI enjoyed seeing the same sections again, but with lucidity this time.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Standing at 8,611m on the Pakistan-China border, K2 is 238m shorter than Everest but is considered more technically challenging \u2013 earning it the nickname \u201cSavage Mountain\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Norwegian climber Kristin Harila and her Nepali guide Tenjin Sherpa conquered K2 a year ago, capping a record for the fastest summit of all 14 of the world\u2019s 8,000m mountains<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The pair completed the feat in three months and one day. Mr Tenjin was killed in an avalanche less than three months later as he guided another climber on Mount Shishapangma in Tibet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In January 2021, a 10-man team from Nepal became the first to summit K2 in winter as temperatures plunged to minus 65 degrees C.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Two Japanese climbers fall from Pakistan’s K2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Norway’s record-breaking climber defends feat after being accused of walking over dying sherpa<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Japanese climbers fall<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The mountain regularly claims the lives of elite climbers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rescue prospects seemed remote on July 29 for two feted Japanese climbers who fell from K2\u2018s western face at the weekend<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr. Kazuya Hiraide and Mr. Kenro Nakajima had been using the same \u201calpine style\u201d of climbing as Mr Vedrines, which relies on a minimum of fixed ropes when they plunged from above 7,000m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A helicopter spotted the motionless pair but was forced to abort a rescue attempt and their sponsor, clothing brand Ishii Sports, said on July 29 that they were on \u201csteep terrain that is difficult to reach\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rescue attempts are still being discussed and no organisation has yet declared the men dead. Successful evacuations from K2 after mishaps are rare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A successful climb up K2\u2018s western face has been achieved only once, in 2007.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr Vedrines is considered one of France\u2019s pre-eminent climbers and set a speed record climbing Pakistan\u2019s Broad Peak in 2022 before descending by paraglider.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He reached the top of the 8,051m mountain, not far from K2, in seven hours and 28 minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Source:- https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/asia\/south-asia\/french-climber-summits-pakistan-s-k2-in-11-hours-a-record-time?close=true<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

French climber Benjamin Vedrines summited Pakistan\u2019s K2 in record time on July 28, reaching the top of the world\u2019s second-highest mountain in just under 11 hours. The 32-year-old specialist in high-speed ascents \u2013 made without the aid of oxygen \u2013 left K2 base camp just after midnight on July 27 and reached the summit 10 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6277,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[2259,105,2142,2258,36],"class_list":["post-6276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sample-category","tag-2nd-highest-peak-of-the-world","tag-geopolitics-2","tag-k-2","tag-mountians-of-pakistan","tag-pakistan"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6278,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6276\/revisions\/6278"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}