First Climb of K2
“The summit of K2, July 31, 1954. Italians Lacedelli and Compagnoni stand atop the world's second-highest peak. Foreground shows the two men in old oxygen kit hugging beneath the Italian flag tied to an ice axe; midground reveals the bottleneck and serac fields dropping below them; the Karakoram peaks stretch to the horizon under a steel-gray Himalayan sky.”
