A workforce of mountaineers set off on foot Thursday to get better the physique of a Chinese language climber from the world’s second-highest peak after dangerous climate grounded helicopter flights, a Pakistani official mentioned.
Guan Jing was struck by falling rocks on Tuesday whereas descending K2, a day after reaching its summit with a bunch in Pakistan’s Gilgit-Baltistan area, based on Faizullah Faraq, a neighborhood authorities spokesperson. She died on the mountain, identified for its treacherous slopes, frequent rockfalls, and excessive climate circumstances.
He mentioned her physique lies between 330 to 500 ft above the superior base camp at about 17,700 ft and has not but been retrieved. K2 rises 28,251 ft above sea degree and is extensively considered one of the troublesome and harmful peaks to climb, with a far increased fatality price than Mount Everest.
“The weather is currently not suitable for a helicopter flight, which is why the body has not yet been brought down” from the mountain, he mentioned. Faraq mentioned Jing was a part of an expedition organized by a Nepali firm.
He mentioned a Nepali Sherpa, Jangbu, was despatched on Wednesday to get better her physique however was injured on the way in which and stranded. The Nepali was later rescued by helicopter and transferred to Skardu Hospital, the place he’s receiving medical therapy.
The world’s second largest mountain, the 8,611 meter excessive K2 (seen within the distance), and the 8,051 meter excessive Broad Peak (R), are illuminated by the moon at Concordia, the confluence of the Baltoro and Godwin-Austen glaciers, within the Karakoram mountain vary in Pakistan on Sept. 7, 2014.
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Guan died whereas descending the mountain under Camp 1, based on The Tourism Occasions of Nepal.
Lethal incidents are widespread on K2, the place steep gradients, skinny air and sudden storms can flip even routine descents into life-threatening ordeals. Simply final month, a Pakistani climber died in a rock slide on K2, based on a number of media stories.
In 2021, famend Scottish climber Rick Allen died in an avalanche whereas making an attempt to scale K2.
The most recent dying comes two weeks after German mountaineer and Olympic gold medalist, Laura Dahlmeier, died whereas making an attempt one other peak within the area. Efforts to retrieve her physique had been deserted when Dahlmeier’s household knowledgeable authorities that she had said that nobody ought to threat their life to get better her physique if she dies in any accident.
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