July 22, 2022 - The Blog on alanarnette.com

Climbing the World to End Alzheimer's

July 22, 2022July 23, 2022Climbing News, K2, K2 2022 Coverage

K2 Summer 2022: K2 Summit Sonic Boom!

The K2 season summit record was smashed with at least 118 summits over the past day, with more to come. What else was smacked was the level of support, an astonishing 73 Sherpa or Pakastani support for only 42 clients or a 1:1.7 ratio. The Everest model is now official on K2.

Big Picture – The Summit Push

The first summit of K2 was in 1954. There were few or no summits for years until the damn broke in 1986 with 26. However, K2’s history is sporadic at best for double-digit summit years. There have been 32 years since 1954 with no summits compared to only nine for Everest since 1953. There have been 15 double-digit summit years on K2, with 2018 holding the previous record with 62 summits:

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Alan Arnette became the oldest American to summit K2 on his 58th birthday and has summited Everest plus 35 major expeditions starting at age 38,including eight 8,000-meter peaks and climbing above 6000 meters twelve times.He climbs to raise money and awareness of Alzheimer's disease.