A climatologist’s chronicles from K2

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It is known as the hardest of all the eight-thousanders, the most remote and the least commercialized. It is hard, remote, and dangerously unpredictable. Panos Athanasiadis, climber and researcher at the Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change (CMCC), tried to reach the summit of K2 in the  summer of 2014, without supplementary oxygen and without guides and high-altitude porters.
In this conversation with Laura Caciagli, Panos tells to us his mixed feelings and his thoughts that accompanied such an extraordinary experience on the precipitous flanks of the K2 and into the so-called death zone, above 8000 m.

Read the full interview  on Climate Science & Policy, the free digital magazine edited by CMCC.

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