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French alpinist Benjamin Védrines climbed from advance base camp to K2's 8,611-metre summit in 10 hours 59 minutes on July 28, 2024, without bottled…
By Laxman Rawal · Jul 28, 2026
At 12:10am on July 28, 2024, French alpinist Benjamin Védrines left K2's advance base camp (5,303m) alone, carrying no bottled oxygen. Just under eleven hours later — 10 hours, 59 minutes and 59 seconds , to the second — he stood on the 8,611m summit of the…
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The most striking detail is where the record was set: on the same route where, on July 28, 2022 — exactly two years to the day before his record — Védrines had turned back at 8,300m and was later discovered unconscious by other climbers. He has spoken about…
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