The Italian climber Fosco Maraini argued in his account of the ascent of Gasherbrum IV that while the name of K2 owes its origin to chance, its clipped, impersonal nature is highly appropriate for so remote and challenging a mountain. He concluded that it was ..." ... just the bare bones of a name, all rock and ice and storm and abyss. It makes no attempt to sound human. It is atoms and stars. It has the nakedness of the world before the first man – or of the cindered planet after the last."
Theres just something about it that attracts me, I dont think id have the balls to go and do it, Youve got to be the best if you want to summit and return home !
K2 has everything. It's incredibly steep from every angle you look at it, it has not easy ways up, it has a perfect pyramidal shape, it's incredibly beautiful and imposing and it is amazingly tall. It lacks nothing, that is why some call it "the perfect mountain".
Compagnoni and Lacedelli, Heroes or liars???
agraziano08 5 months ago
The Italian climber Fosco Maraini argued in his account of the ascent of Gasherbrum IV that while the name of K2 owes its origin to chance, its clipped, impersonal nature is highly appropriate for so remote and challenging a mountain. He concluded that it was ..." ... just the bare bones of a name, all rock and ice and storm and abyss. It makes no attempt to sound human. It is atoms and stars. It has the nakedness of the world before the first man – or of the cindered planet after the last."
Dunwyche 6 months ago
Theres just something about it that attracts me, I dont think id have the balls to go and do it, Youve got to be the best if you want to summit and return home !
pikeflyfisherman 1 year ago
K2 has everything. It's incredibly steep from every angle you look at it, it has not easy ways up, it has a perfect pyramidal shape, it's incredibly beautiful and imposing and it is amazingly tall. It lacks nothing, that is why some call it "the perfect mountain".
Helmut83 1 year ago 3
Alpinism is the way...
"God, up in the sky let Achille continue to walk through his mountain..." The time never delete your memory.
teknofolle 2 years ago 12