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Icelandic John Snorri, Chilean Juan Pablo Mohr and Pakistani Muhammad Ali Sadpara lost contact with the base camp on Friday.
“We have not heard from John Snorri, Ali Sadpara and Juan Pablo Mohr for more than 30 hours because none of the GPS trackers appear to be working,” said expedition leader Chhang Dawa Sherpa.
According to the leader, the military helicopter that flew in search of the missing did not find them.
“Unfortunately, they can’t track anything and the situation on the mountain and even at base camp is deteriorating,” he said.
The secretary of the Pakistani mountaineering club, Karar Haidri, also confirmed to the AFP news agency that the climbers are missing.
News of the three men’s disappearance came a day after the death of a Bulgarian climber on K2 was confirmed.
The Bulgarian is the second person to die on the slopes of K2 this year. A Spanish climber crashed there in January.
A third climber, Alex Goldfarb, a Russian and American national, died last month on top of another nearby mountain during an acclimatization program in preparation for storming Broad Peak in Karakorum.
A few weeks ago, a Nepalese team was immortalized in history as the first to climb K2 during the winter season.
Called “Fierce Mountain”, the 8,611-meter-high K2 is characterized by extremely harsh conditions: its slopes often rise to more than 200 km per hour and the temperature can drop to -60 degrees.
As Pakistan left its borders open during the rampant coronavirus pandemic and many other climbing sites were closed, up to four teams (a total of about 60 climbers) concentrated on the K2 slopes this winter, more than all previous expeditions combined. .
Unlike the highest peak in the world, Everest, which thousands of climbers of all ages climb, Peak K2 is visited by people much less frequently.
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