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Detailed explanation-1: -Islamabad: Daredevil Andrzej Bargiel has become the first person to ski down the world’s second-highest mountain, the Polish national said Sunday. Bargiel whizzed down from the summit of Pakistan’s 8,611-metre (28,251-feet) K2 to the mountain’s base camp after reaching the peak with around 30 others on Saturday.

Detailed explanation-2: -Many have died attempting to ski the world’s second tallest mountain. See how National Geographic Adventurer of the Year Andrzej Bargiel made history. Last July, after days of climbing, Andrzej Bargiel skied down K2, the world’s second-tallest mountain.

Detailed explanation-3: -A case study of the use of drones in the historic first ski descent of K2, carried out in 2018 by Poland’s Andrzej Bargiel. When on 22 July 2018 Andrzej Bargiel carried out the first complete ski descent of K2, he was as Jimmy Chin rightly explained at the “very pinnacle of ski mountaineering".

Detailed explanation-4: -A Slovenian adventurer, Karnicar needed less than five hours to ski 12,000 feet from the summit of Mount Everest to its base camp.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Man Who Skied Down Everest is a documentary about Yuichiro Miura, a Japanese alpinist who skied down Mount Everest in 1970.