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Remembering the Duke of Abruzzi
On January 29, 1873, Prince Luigi Amadeo Giuseppe Maria Ferdinando Francisco di Savoia-Aosta, better known as the Duke of ...
The Duke of Abruzzi, who had carried out the grandiose conquest of Mount St. Elias in Alaska and had returned from an expedition to the Arctic, began to ponder about this challenge until, in 1906, he ...
Rare footage and still images from the 1909 Duke of Abruzzi expedition make this a definitive historical piece on K2, tracing the parallels of high altitude exploration over the last century. Harsh ...
Travelogue about the 1909 expedition of Duke Luigi Amedeo of Italy to K2.