What was the worst mountain climbing disaster on K2?
The fate of the rest of the climbers is still unconfirmed, although media reports and Pakistani tour operators and officials have put the number of dead at 11. The missing climbers include a team from Korea, a Norwegian, a Serb, Frenchman, and several Nepali and Pakistani guides and high-altitude porters. In 1995, six climbers died during a single day on K2, including American Rob Slater. The worst season in K2 climbing history was 1986, when 13 died. http://www.climbing.com/news/hotflashes/disaster_on_k2/ The most recent one was last year: Sunday August 03, 2008, 5:00 PM At least nine climbers are believed dead and five others were missing on K2, the world’s second-highest peak. The jagged, 28,250-foot mountain, which lies in the Himalayan range in northern Pakistan, is considered by many mountaineers to be an even more formidable challenge than Mount Everest, the world’s highest peak. The Los Angeles
At least nine climbers have died on the world’s most dangerous mountain after a series of incidents led to chaos on the slopes of K2. Officials say a number of other climbers are missing and that the death toll could rise. In what was described as one of the blackest weekends in mountaineering, six of the climbers were struck by an avalanche while descending from the summit of the mountain, the second highest after Everest. Three more died in separate incidents. The fatalities came after 22 climbers from eight expeditions reached the summit on Saturday and then began the perilous journey back down the mountain. “They were returning from the summit when an avalanche at the Bottleneck hit them,” Ghulam Mohammad, a tour official, told Reuters. While precise details remain unclear, it seems that a serac – a pinnacle or pillar of ice – gave way. This killed some of the group and destroyed a number of fixed climbing ropes on the steep gully known as the Bottleneck, leaving other climbers str
