Who died on a climb to the top of the k2 mountain?
Update: The mountaineer Michele Fait, 44 years died last night while he was skiing K2. Early reports state Michele crashed while skiing into a canyon area, which can be seen somewhat from base camp. Climbers found his body …Sad 2009-06-18 – Skiing on K2 K2, What a mountain. It is 8612 meters high, but when I stand here in base camp, at 5100 meters, and look at it, it doesn’t fell like it is more than 1000 meters to the summit. It is a weird feeling when I know it is more than 3500 meters to the top. A few days ago when Michele and I was on our first acclimatization trip we got to experience how big the mountain really is. We left base camp at seven in the morning and walked along the Godwin Austen Glacier for 30 minutes up to the foot of K2 and the start of the Cesen Route. With ski boots and crampons on our feet, poles in our hands and a heavy backpack filled with a tent, sleeping bag, primus stove, gas, food etc. and a pair of skis strapped onto it, we started the climbing. At the
How A K2 Mountain Climb Turned Tragic 11 Climbers Died In Latest Disaster On The World’s Deadliest Mountain (CBS) There was menace even in K2’s perfect weather at the start of the latest tragic climb, according to 23-year-old Californian Nick Rice, who was forced by frostbite to abandon his own effort to reach the top, reports CBS News correspondent Richard Roth. “There was perfect visibility, actually almost too perfect, like something’s going to go wrong,” Rice said. As a group of climbers approached the five-mile-high peak after midnight Friday, it did. Along two paths, the climbers had begun their final push in early-morning darkness when a Serbian fell to his death and a Pakistani porter died trying to recover the body. The others moved on to the summit, but time had cost them oxygen and energy, and their descent turned deadly. An ice ledge suddenly sheared off the mountain face, cutting guide ropes, killing at least four climbers and stranding the rest in a place known as “the de
