The route, beginning at the base of the ridge at 17,390 feet (5,300 meters) ascends 10,862 feet (3,311 meters) to K2's summit at 28,253 feet (8,612 meters). The route is named for Italian climber Prince Luigi Amedeo, the Duke of Abruzzi, who led an expedition to K2 in 1909 and made the first attempt on the ridge. Likewise, a majority of deaths occur along its well-traveled ridge. The Abruzzi Spur route climbs steep snow and ice slopes broken by rock ribs and a couple cliff bands that are surmounted with technical climbing.Ībout three-quarters of all the climbers who ascend K2 do the Abruzzi Spur. The ridge and route loom menacingly above Base Camp on the Godwin-Austen Glacier on the south side of the mountain. The most common climbing route that climbers take to ascend K2, the second highest mountain in the world, is the Abruzzi Spur or the Southeast Ridge.
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