How are steep and difficult mountains like K2, Annapurna, Jannu climbed for the first time without ropes, ladders and harnesses from above for support?

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How are steep and difficult mountains like K2, Annapurna, Jannu climbed for the first time without ropes, ladders and harnesses from above for support?

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Exactly the way you described: without ropes, ladders, or harnesses from above for support. By people with much bigger balls than us, so that we may follow after them with the stuff they set up once they got to the top.