Achille Compagnoni, an Italian climber who was a member of the first team to reach the summit of the world’s second-highest peak, has died. He was 94. Compagnoni died Wednesday at a hospital in the ...
Achille Compagnoni, the Italian mountaineer, who died on Tuesday aged 94, was one of the first two men to reach the summit of K2, the world's second-highest mountain, but his achievement was mired in ...
Achille Compagnoni, the Italian mountaineer, who died on Tuesday aged 94, was one of the first two men to reach the summit of K2, the world's second-highest mountain, but his achievement was mired in ...
In July 1954, the leader of the Italian expedition to K2, in the Himalayas, diminutive geographer called Ardito Desio, sent a note up the mountain to his beleaguered climbers. "Remember," the note ...