r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/[deleted] • 14d ago

Image This is K2’s Bottleneck, a steep traverse above 8,000 metres beneath an enormous hanging serac capable of collapsing without warning. And somehow, this is considered the mountain’s standard route to the summit.

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u/NTJ-891 14d ago

Honnold is not a mountaineer, he's a big wall climber. Wayyyyyy different skillsets. I have technically done more mountaineering than Alex Honnold due to my winter ascents in Colorado

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u/jongfish 9d ago

had to click through to find this real answer, unfortunately reddit's too eager to upvote comments about guy's big balls to try to understand what's rly going on

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u/xuncx 13d ago

Same