MOUNTAINEERING the shipment of the Duke of the Abruzzi Luigi Amedeo di Savoia to the Karakorum in 1909; to try an improbable climb to the K2; abandoned to quota 6640; after to have however gone up what still today the Abruzzi Spur is called; that the second summit of the world constitutes integrating part of the way'normale'verso. Encampment at the beginning of the shipment. The K2 with its 8611 meters of quota is the second mountain of the world after the Everest; takes part of the montuosa chain of the Karakorum in Central Asia to the border between Pakistan; China and India.