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Alpinist Magazine Issue 38 - Spring 2012 Print or Digital?:Print Issue became legendary for her dirtbagFeatures Mountain Profile: K2, Part II (19742012) For the final part of our two part series, Steve Swenson returns to the history of K2 (8611m) in 1974, as the fighting in Kashmir subsides and the Karakoram Range reopens to the outside world. The 1970s and 1980s on the world's second highest mountain are a time of intense contrasts and cultural diversity, of boldness and creativity, conflict and tragedy. Although, since the 1990s, a form of