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"ref": "1954 October 11, “Assault on the Summit: The Conquerors' Account”, in Life, volume 37, number 15, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 33",
"text": "On the morning of July 31, the mountain rose spangled in the summer sun 2,300 feet above Achille Compagnoni and Lino Lacedelli. Strapping on three oxygen tanks, the two men faced toward K2's last fastness.",
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"ref": "2001, Heidi Howkins, K2: One Woman's Quest for the Summit, Washington, D.C.: National Geographic, →LCCN, →OCLC, page v",
"text": "What is there on the summit of K2, that would entice a climber to risk everything?",
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"text": "Meyer’s team was one of eight international expeditions that were setting off on the final day of their ascent of K2, at 28,251 feet the second-tallest mountain on earth. K2 was nearly 800 feet shorter than Everest, the world’s highest peak, but it was considered much more difficult, and more deadly.",
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"ref": "2020, Carla Perez, 42:40 from the start, in Breathtaking: K2 - The World's Most Dangerous Mountain | Eddie Bauer, YouTube, Eddie Bauer, archived from the original on 2020-05-22",
"text": "I'm super excited to be on the summit of K2! No Ox! (coughs) It was hard.",
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"ref": "2021 January 19, Adam Skolnick, Bhadra Sharma, “How Climbers Reached the Summit of K2 in Winter for the First Time”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-01-19, Sports",
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"ref": "2021 July 27, Umar Farooq, “Pakistani, 19, becomes youngest person to summit K2”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 2021-07-27",
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"ref": "2022 August 1, Emma Yeomans, Fiona Kingston, “Overcrowding on K2 as climbers queue to reach peak”, in The Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-08-01, UK News",
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"g": "m",
"g2": "",
"g3": "",
"head": ""
},
"expansion": "K2 m",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "m"
},
"expansion": "K2 m",
"name": "pt-proper noun"
}
],
"lang": "Portuguese",
"lang_code": "pt",
"pos": "name",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Portuguese entries with incorrect language header",
"Portuguese lemmas",
"Portuguese masculine nouns",
"Portuguese proper nouns",
"Portuguese terms borrowed from English",
"Portuguese terms derived from English",
"Portuguese terms spelled with K",
"Portuguese terms spelled with numbers",
"Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation",
"pt:Mountains"
],
"glosses": [
"K2 (a mountain in Himalayas, the world’s second highest mountain)"
],
"links": [
[
"K2",
"K2#English"
],
[
"mountain",
"mountain"
],
[
"Himalayas",
"Himalayas#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"masculine"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈka ˈdojs/",
"tags": [
"Brazil"
]
}
],
"word": "K2"
}
{
"called_from": "pronunciations/296/20230324",
"msg": "Zh-pron header not found in zh_pron_tags or tags: '(Standard Chinese)⁺'",
"path": [
"K2"
],
"section": "Chinese",
"subsection": "",
"title": "K2",
"trace": ""
}
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