In August 1953, the same year that Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay climbed Everest, an American team of seven set out to climb K2 led by Charles Houston.
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While attempting to traverse an ice sheet, climber George Irving Bell lost his footing, pulling Tony Streather loose.
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On the seventh day, climbing without oxygen, they became trapped at over 25,000 feet (7,620 meters) on the Abruzzi Ridge of K2.
The peak was named by US-ACAN in 2006 after Peter K. Schoening (1936-2004), member of the 1966–67 American Antarctic Mountaineering Expedition that made the first ascent of Mount Vinson, the summit of Antarctica, and other high mountains in the Sentinel Range.
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