Climbing K2 on openwire feeders (28,251' - second to Mt Everest)

[K1JJ]

Start viewing this YouTube video at 12:00.    

For a few minutes I was convinced that the climber was pulling on an old openwire feeder by mistake -  stretched up the mountain long ago by some ham.  It looked beat up and broken enough to fool me.  I was convinced a ham on Field Day erected an antenna at the top and set up a station at camp 1 below....    My homebrew open wire looks exactly like that.  Too funny.  We sometimes see what we wanna see.  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzovtuGG0n8

BTW, this is an amazing video of how extremely difficult this K2 climb is.... much harder than Everest.

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[AB3L]

That reminds me of the ladders that were used to get above stage lighting trusses for concerts. Always amazing to watch four or five of the spot operators heading up without killing themselves. Also signaled the start of the concert...woo hoo!
I don't think I've seen that event in a couple of decades.