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Climber Barely Missed K2 Avalanche

VPM | By NPR
Published August 5, 2008 at 5:00 PM EDT
Updated July 11, 2023

An avalanche on Pakistan’s K2 mountain has taken the lives of at least 11 climbers. Alex Chadwick talks to Nicholas Rice, who is currently at a base camp near K2. The young mountaineer turned back from an ascent to the summit just hours before the avalanche.

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