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Nepali climbers 1st to scale K2, world's 2nd highest mountain, in winter

Pakistan on Sunday felicitated a team of 10 Nepali climbers for making history by becoming the first to scale in winter the world's second-highest mountain K2, considered as the world's most dangerous and challenging peak.

K2 with its daunting 8,611 meters height is located in Gilgit-Baltistan side of the Karakoram range. It was the only among 8,000-meter high peaks that were never scaled in winter.