There are many routes on K2. One of them is the Magic Line, a dangerous route along K2’s south-southwest ridge that climbers regarded as the most difficult challenge of the 1980s. Reinhold Messner named it the Magic Line in 1979. The first attempts at this incredibly difficult route were made in the summer of 1979.

Italian mountaineer, Renato Casarotto, couldn't climb K2 via the Magic Line in 1979 due to rift in their team. Reinhold Messner wanted to climb K2 via the Abruzzi Spur while Casarotto wanted to scale it through the Magic Line. Casarotto was so obsessed with the Magic Line that he came back to K2 in 1986, this time with his wife Goretta. He wanted to solo the long, unclimbed south south-west ridge, with a slight deviation to the right in the upper part.

This is his story !

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