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An Italian marked the 50th anniversary of his grandfather’s history-making climb of the dangerous K-2 by summiting the world’s second-highest peak Monday.
Italians Lino Lacedelli and Achille Compagnoni became the first to scale K-2 on July 31, 1954. Compagnoni’s grandson, Michele, reached the summit along with four other climbers. Four other people from a Spanish team, including Edurne Pasaban, the sixth woman ever, also summited Monday, according to Naiknam Karim of Adventure Tours Pakistan.
They were the first climbers to reach the top of K-2 in three years.
