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In 1978, Rick Ridgeway and John Roskelly made history twice on a single expedition. The intrepid American climbers became the first people on the planet to scale all 28,251 feet of Kashmir’s K2—the second-highest mountain on Earth, just 779 feet shorter than Everest—without supplementary oxygen. More importantly for sneakerheads, though, they carried out both the treacherous 130-mile approach to base camp and large swaths of their journey back down the mountain in bright yellow running…
