Jim Wickwire (born 1940) is an attorney in Seattle, Washington, most famous as the first American to reach the top of K2, the world's second-highest mountain, and then for surviving the night in the open just below the summit. His first attempt on K2 was in a 1975 expedition that broke down in disputes and never got above 22,000 ft. Wickwire reached the summit with Louis Reichardt on September 6, 1978, but while Reichart went down right away, … Wikipedia
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