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Wasfia Nazreen first Bangladeshi to summit K2

Wasfia Nazreen, a Bangladeshi female climber, has become the first person ever from Bangladesh to scale the K2 on Friday.

The K2, located at 8,611 metres above sea level, is the second-highest mountain on Earth, after Mount Everest.

Besides being far more technically difficult to climb than Everest, the K2 has notoriously fickle weather and has only been scaled by 425 people since 1954 — including around 20 women, reports AFP.

On contrary, more than 6,000 people have climbed Everest since Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay first reached the top in 1953 — some of them multiple times.

It is in the Karakoram range, partially in the Gilgit-Baltistan region of Pakistan-administered Kashmir and partially in a China-administered territory of the Kashmir region included in the Taxkorgan Tajik Autonomous County of Xinjiang.

Wasfia Nazreen first Bangladeshi to summit K2

The mountain became popularly known as the Savage Mountain after George Bell, a climber on the 1953 American expedition, told reporters, “It’s a savage mountain that tries to kill you.

Of the five highest mountains in the world, K2 is the deadliest; approximately one person dies on the mountain out of every four who try to reach the summit.

It is also occasionally known as Mount Godwin-Austen, the King of Mountains, and the Mountaineers’ Mountain after prominent Italian climber Reinhold Messner titled it with those adjectives in his book “K2: Mountain of Mountains”.

The summit, for the first time, was reached by the Italian climbers Lino Lacedelli and Achille Compagnoni in 1954- the expedition was led by Ardito Desio, an Italian explorer, mountain climber, and geologist.

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