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Pakistan’s K2 porters tread between tradition and modernity 

  • It’s a dozen-day round trip, some 270,000 burdened steps in lopsided plastic loafers, tie-dye headbands and leopard-print pyjamas 
  • Seven decades after K2’s first summit, the hardscrabble lives of the men shouldering expeditions to great heights are at crossroads 
By AFP ·

2 Pakistani climbers set new records on Mount Annapurna

By Nisar Ali ·

'Our hero': Search off for Pakistan’s Ali Sadpara, two other missing K2 climbers

By Arab News Pakistan ·

Bad weather halts Pakistani army search for missing climbers 

By AP ·

Bulgarian climber dies while trying to scale K2

By Nisar Ali ·

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