K2 world record: What's it like to climb a deadly mountain at record speed?
French climber Benjamin Vedrines recently set a new speed record climbing K2.
He made the fastest-ever ascent of the world's second highest mountain - which is on the border of Pakistan and China - in 10 hours, 59 minutes and 59 seconds.
The ascent broke the previous record for climbing K2 without bottled oxygen, completed in 23 hours by fellow Frenchman Benoit Chamoux in 1986.
Speaking from Islamabad, Vedrines reflected on training to get to this moment, the importance of patience and whether he thinks he could do it all again even faster.
(Photo: Benjamin Vedrines on a snowy mountain. Credit: Benjamin Vedrines)
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