Achille Compagnoni Dies

Italian climber Achille Compagnoni, a member of the first team to reach the summit of the world's second-highest peak, died Wednesday. He was 94.

Compagnoni died at the hospital in the northern Italian city of Aosta, where he had been treated for several weeks, said hospital spokesman Tiziano Trevisan.

On July 31, 1954, Compagnoni and fellow Italian climber Lino Lacedelli become the first to the summit of Pakistan's K-2, which at 28,251 feet (8,611 meters) is the world's second-highest peak after Mount Everest.

Rest In Peace, Achille.