Rising more than two
miles from the base of
its glacier to its sum-
mit, Pakistan’s K2 is
known as the Savage
Mountain. For every
four climbers who
make it to the top and
back, another dies
trying. No one had
summited it in winter.
Says Nirmal “Nims”
Purja, “We were try-
ing to show the world
that the impossible
was possible.”
SANDRO GROMEN-HAYES