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For the first time in history, climbers climbed K2 in winter. The highest peak of 8,611 meters in Karakoram in Pakistan is the second highest mountain in the world and is considered very challenging.
“A team of ten Nepalese Sherpas boarded K2 that afternoon,” confirmed a secretary of the Alpine Clubs of Pakistan (ACP) Karrar Heydari, a German news agency. They started the storm at the top at 1 am local time (9 pm CET on Friday) and reached the top at 4:56 pm The Sherpa group stopped at a point, 70 meters from the top, to wait for the one to the other before writing their way together. in world history books.
K2 on the Pakistan-China border was the only one of the 14,800 people in the world who had never climbed in the winter. It was first climbed in 1954. It is more demanding than Mount Everest, which, at 8,849 meters, is the highest mountain in the world. The causes include the steep track and the risk of avalanches, and in winter its surface turns to smooth ice.
The highest altitude previously reached on K2 in winter was 7,750 meters by Denis Oropco and Marcin Kachkan, established nearly two decades ago. Reinhold Messner, a climber from South Tyrol who calls K2 “Mountain Mountain,” reached its peak in July 1979.
Spanish climber mortally wounded
Haidari told Reuters his success was marred by the murder of well-known Spanish climber Sergio Mingut, who fell into a crevasse while trying to descend to base camp. There are currently around 49 climbers in various teams in K2 trying to reach the top, weather permitting.
And Spanish Health Minister Salvador Illa wrote on Twitter, describing Mingut, 49, as a “personal friend”, “upset by the news of the accident that killed a great athlete.” Mingut climbed seven mountains over 8,000 meters in less than two years without supplemental oxygen.
The K2 was first climbed in 1954 by the Italian company Achille Compagnoni, and 450 people have reached the top. So far, more than 80 people have had an accident while trying. In 2008 alone, eleven climbers were killed in an avalanche. The Pakistani army is regularly called in to rescue climbers with helicopters, but the weather often makes it difficult.
The coronavirus epidemic has severely affected travel restrictions in the traditional summer mountaineering season in the Karakoram Mountains, especially in Pakistan, where five of the world’s 14 peaks are more than 8,000 meters high. In northern Pakistan there is also the Nanga Parbat (8,125 meters), which is feared as the “Death Mountain”, and formerly known as the “Mountain of Destiny of the Germans”.
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