6. Dunagiri Mountain

8. Shining Mountain

9. Just a beautiful photo

11. The final path to a summit

12. At last the summit

13. 3rd camp

14. Above the 2nd camp

15. The Changabang North Wall

16. Here starts the Gang River

18. On the ice field

19. Camps on the Route

22. Base camp

26. Typical weather

27. Magic Crystal

28. Typical weather

29. Few safe camping sites for such a huge mountain. Our first camp

30. Bring it on!

32. In arm's length of the stratosphere

33. Crossings on the fifth day of trekking

34. The way home

36. Andrei Volkov ascends from the first camp

37. A friendship of nations at 6.500m

38. Base camp house-warming party. Andrei Volkov is translating the jokes

39. Trekking, day 1. Gnawing round sheep's bones

40. We never claimed to be Hercules!

41. Sergei Penzov and Ryszard Pawlowski on the summit

42. One of many evenings trekking back home

43. Getting ready

44. Section of the route between the 2nd and the 3rd camps

45. The flag on the tripod behind Sergei Penzov's head symbolizes the highest point of K2 (8,611m)

46. The summit is behind us. Penzov and Buhler at 7.100m

47. Arrived

48. How did it happen?

49. R.I.P.

50. Igor Benkin near the 5th camp tent

51. Igor's "tombstone"

52. Nighttime conversations

54. Andrei Mariev ascends using the rope. The boot is Sasha Dosaev's

55. "Crow's Nest"

56. Climbing to the sky

57. Shaksgam Canyon. China

58. "Resting" at the 4th camp (7,500m)