French climber says he took his time in speed record K2 summit

"It's not the records themselves that interest me, it's also the links that I create with certain mountains and especially in the case of K2," the 32-year-old told AFP. "It fascinated me from the first moment I saw it." Vedrines scaled the world's second-highest mountain -- standing at 8,611 metres (28,251 feet) on the border of Pakistan and China -- in 10 hours, 59 minutes and 59 seconds on Sunday, July 28th. The ascent slashed by more than half the previous record for climbing K2 without bottled oxygen...