A TEAM of 10 Nepalese mountaineers made history over the weekend as they scaled the world’s second highest peak K2 which had until now never been summited in winter. The climbers have set a benchmark of courage and endurance. Apart from the Nepalese feat, 367 climbers have completed the ascent of K2 in summer. Their numbers have included several Pakistani mountaineers including the prolific Nazeer Sabir, who scaled K2 in 1981, Hassan Sadpara, Fazal Ali and others. In 2014, six Pakistani climbers who were part of an expedition, scaled the K2 to become the first team of climbers from the country to do so. K2, which stands at a daunting 8,611m, is also known as the Savage Peak. It has a reputation for being the world’s most difficult mountain to climb and is notorious for frequent rock falls and avalanches while the weather is unpredictable with strong winds and unusually low winter temperatures. Such perils have taken the lives of almost 90 climbers in their quest to scale the moun
Goldfarb pushed on alone when his teammate failed to persuade him to give up during an acclimatising mission, ahead of a bid to scale the nearby 8,051-metre (26,414-feet) Broad Peak in the Karakoram range on the Chinese border.
The Pakistan Army has recovered the body of an American climber near K2, the second highest peak of the world, making the second death of a foreign mountaineer in the area in less than a week, the media reported on Tuesday.A helicopter team .
A missing Russian-American climber has been found dead after falling from the world’s 12th-highest mountain, having refused to turn back in dangerous winter conditions, the company that organised his ascent said.
Alex Goldfarb pushed on alone when his teammate failed to persuade him to give up their attempt to scale the 8,051-metre (26,414-foot) Broad Peak in the Karakoram range on the border with China.
“We are deeply saddened to have lost our climbing partner and friend,” said Laszlo Pinter, spokesman for the Broad Peak Winter Expedition 2021, on Tuesday.
“The helicopter search mission has found his body on Pastore Peak where he is presumed to have fallen off the mountain,” he said in a statement.