Two pilots paraglide to the top of the world, K2, for the first time ever. They captured stunning video of areas rarely or never seen before.
For the first time ever, two paraglider pilots flew to K2 and glided within 1,100 yards of the summit. They brought home never before seen views.
Red Bull calls the men the “world’s top adventure paraglider pilots.” The extreme athletes set up base camp on the foot of the at around 10,000 feet above sea level. While acclimatizing to the altitude, they practiced with several shorter flights for about four weeks. The dozen or so 60-mile flights usually lasted between 5 and 6 hours.
The thin air at that altitude only holds about a third of the oxygen as air at sea level. Rapid ascent can mean a sudden loss of consciousness, according to Red Bull. So the men flew with a constant stream of extra oxygen through masks. Oxygen saturation monitors alerted the men if levels were too low forcing both to abort the flight.
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