Disaster on K2: ‘Now I Really Realize That Everyone Here Has Died’
Travel Blog • Jim Benning • 08.05.08 | 11:04 AM ET
The AP reports on the last man to reach base camp at K2—grateful to be alive, his toes frostbitten—after falling ice resulted in the deaths of 11 climbers. Among the creepy details emerging from the scene: at least one climber apparently froze to death while hanging upside down from a rope, the Telegraph reports. And this, from a Dutch survivor: “Everybody was fighting for himself and I still do not understand why everybody was leaving each other.” The mountain is known among climbers for posing a greater challenge than Everest. Climber Ed Viesturs called it “the holy grail of mountains.”
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Jim Benning is the editor and co-founder of World Hum.
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