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Probably, yes (though I might add Hillary always claimed Tenzing and him reached the top together and deserve equal credit). It's just about conceivable that some local had done it but unlikely since the mountain is well known enough that it would have been legendary.
Fun fact. K2 is so remote and hostile that K2 is in fact it's original name. It's barely even visible from the farthest regular human travel in the region and there's no reason to go there. It is, to this date, much more deadly than going to space So we can be pretty damn sure K2 was climbed by Lacidelli first.