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For the first time in history, mountaineers climbed K2 in winter.
The 8,611 meter high peak in the Karakoram in Pakistan is the second highest mountain in the world and is considered extremely difficult.
"A team of ten Nepalese Sherpas climbed the K2 that afternoon," confirmed the secretary of the Alpine Club of Pakistan (ACP), Karrar Haidri, to the dpa news agency.
They started the summit storm at 1 a.m. local time (9 p.m. CET on Friday) and reached the top at 4:56 p.m.
The K2 near the Pakistani-China border was the only one of the world's 14 eight-thousanders that had never been climbed in winter.
Now 50 mountaineers from all over the world are preparing for a winter ascent in three international expeditions.
Steep route and danger of avalanches
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The K2 was climbed for the first time in 1954.
It is considered to be far more demanding than Mount Everest, which is almost 8,849 meters high, the highest mountain in the world.
Reasons include the steep route and the danger of avalanches.
So far, only around 300 people have climbed it.
In 2008, eleven climbers were killed by an avalanche.
Nanga Parbat (8125 meters), also known as the “Germans' mountain of fate”, rises in the north of Pakistan, feared as the “killer mountain”.