*kills you*

I love how dark the sky becomes at high elevation, it gets so alien looking, even the blue sky has left you behind in some permanent midnight world beyond the earth, like a Karen Lynch collage irl

Still the best ever photo of K2's Bottleneck. Ominous and alien, massive chunks of ice like breezeblocks just waiting to crack and plunge below to effortlessly crush any trespassers like ants. The scale and power of this photo terrifies me.

>2021 — Ten climbers from an international expedition made the first winter summit on 16 January 2021. On the same day Spanish team member Sergi Mingote died on the descent from Camp III; he fell somewhere between Camp I and Advanced Base Camp.[13][12][88][89][90][91][92][93][94] Other famous climbers who died on the same expedition include Atanas Skatov,[95][96][97] Ali Sadpara, and John Snorri.[98][99]
All these guys have their own wikipedia pages for being world famous climbers, all have deaths listed in early 2021. K2 does not fuck around. It wipes out the cream of the crop routinely. K2 is a massive inhuman structure that converts human ambition into death.

I can't think of anything more spiritually oppositional to our present political structures of harm avoidance, ambitionless and risk-free Longhousery than attempting to summit K2. if you put everyone who ever climbed K2 in charge we would start to recover.

@augustus Have you heard of the summit of Ogre I? It was only first submitted in 77 and it is one of the most insane accounts of human preserverance I have ever heard. On of the climbers had to descend the entire mountain with broken legs.