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The Nepali team that achieved the world's first winter ascent of K2 returns triumphantly to Kathmandu, where crowds greet them outside the airport IMAGES
Kathmandu / Islamabad, Jan 21 (EFE/EPA).- A group of 10 Nepali climbers made the first winter ascent of K2, the world's second-tallest mountain, pulling off one of the “last remaining great prizes” in mountaineering history.The group reached on Jan.16 the 28,251-foot summit of K2, located in Pakistan’s Karakoram range.“Finally we did it. We made history in the mountaineering field,” Mingma Gyalze Sherpa, who is known as Mingma G, wrote on his Facebook page. (Camera: NARENDRA SHRESTHA / SOHAIL SHAHZAD).SHOT LIST: NEPALI CLIMBERS ARRIVE AT ISLAMABAD INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT IN ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN.
The Nepali team which made history at the weekend by becoming the first to summit K2 in winter receive a hero's welcome, with garlands and cake, from the climbing community and others in the Pakistani town of Shigar. IMAGES
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