2020/21 Winter K2 Summit attempt is in serious progress, 4 teams total(1 commercial with 22 clients & 25 supporting Sherpas), some of climbers intent to summit without supplemental oxygen bottle.
2014 Summit of K2 Every time when headwind is so suffocating, OBS always goes back to his blog. Why climb such difficult mountains and pick such a impossible fight against Alzheimer’s. “Freedom of choice “!!! Someone reminded OBS the other day.
Vengerov, Kissin, Repin in Hamburg, Germany, 1988. Rare concert video, 3 hard working prodigy. Went to Repin’s Tchaikovsky concerto in D recital many, many years ago. His performance had lost luster already.