Photo: Luboš Pavlíček, ČTK
Ten years ago, Czech mountaineer Radek Jaroš successfully climbed the world’s second-highest mountain, K2, and thus completed the ascent of all 14 of the globe’s “eight-thousanders”. He was the first Czech to achieve this feat, and only the 15th person in the world to do so without using supplemental oxygen.
Jaroš climbed his first “eight-thousander” – the 14 mountains recognised by the International Mountaineering and Climbing Federation as being more than 8,000 metres in height above sea level, and sufficiently independent of neighbouring peaks – in 1998.
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Author: Anna Fodor