Fellow climbers say video footage shows Kristin Harila’s team walking over body of frostbitten man during record ascent
I thought it was common practice to leave them because a rescue attempt would usually kill everyone involved. You either come prepared to go all the way up and all the way down, or you stay on the mountain.
K2 is an incredibly dangerous mountain. The possibility of a rescue attempt would depend on many factors that we have no way to know. In these sorts of situations even other climbers nearby might have a complete different opinion. In many cases like this people are often not thinking correctly believing they saw something that wasn’t even there or just completely misperceived due to attitude or exhaustion or illness.
You’re thinking of the Himalaya above a certain height. There it’s impossible to rescue.
On K2, multiple knowledged people have said in interviews that usually you would only need to give him oxygen and then he should have been able to descend himself. Eyewitnesses say that to their knowledge he couldnt move by himself anymore. But those eyewitnesses also said he was dead within an hour, which has been proven to be wrong.
The critical thing here is that no one was asked for help. The crews trying to summit simply decided to continue upwards, and no one tried to bring him down the mountain or ask for help from the basecamp.
this is a stupid accusation. the video shows only several seconds of the situation while they claim to have attended to him for hours, removing all context. and they obviously don’t understand how difficult it is to save someone on the top of such a high elevation mountain
Welcome to what we call news these days. You just described what my local teams would call “Investigative” reporting ie: “removing all context.”
When interviewed by Norwegian media she explained that they tried helping, but after a while they had to move since it was one of the most dangerous parts of the route and the queue was building up behind them, which could lead to a far worse situation.
This isn’t like walking past someone on your afternoon trip with 1000 meter elevation.
Another expert questioned why the man was allowed to join the journey in the fist place as his equipment was below the usual standard needed to ascend K2. You can’t easily bail out once you are up there.
It is bizarre to me that we are living in a time when there is enough climbers for there to be a queue on that mountain.
Tonnes of hikes and Parks around Vancouver now require a pass to enter in order to control the crowds. My partner and I refer to this as “nature’s full”. It really sucks.
Despite how much I love traveling, tourism is a plague. At least when uncontrolled
There are 8 billions of us and it’s a world famous mountain infamous for killing a lot of those who try ascending it.
I would have loved to try climbing it if I had the resources and it weren’t for the fact I’d probably die if I tried it.
very misleading, fuck OP
That’s literally what the article uses for the title AND the blurb; tf are you getting mad at me for?!
Could clean up the clickbait a bit I suppose. 💁♂️
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