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The most deadly events on K2 were the 1986 K2 disaster, 1995 K2 disaster, and 2008 K2 disaster. As of August 2023, an estimated 800 people had completed a summit of the mountain, and 96 had died trying.
22 sie 2023 · On July 27, more than 150 people tried to summit K2 as a man lay dying in their path. Footage from the mountain would later shock the world when it showed climbers walking past him. But...
The 2008 K2 disaster occurred on 1 August 2008, when 11 mountaineers from international expeditions died on K2, the second-highest mountain on Earth. [1] [2] Three others were seriously injured. The series of deaths, over the course of the Friday ascent and Saturday descent, was the worst single accident in the history of K2 mountaineering.
25 paź 2018 · Only 18 people climbed that day, making the death toll of 11, if possible, even more shocking.
28 lip 2024 · Deaths on K2. Japanese climbers Kazuya Hiraide, 45, and Kenro Nakajima, 39, apparently fell down K2’s West Face around 7,500 meters. They were on their fourth day of climbing. The Pakistani newspaper Dawn reported that a rescue helicopter discovered their motionless bodies.
10 lut 2021 · K2, on the Chinese-Pakistani border in the Karakoram range, has one of the deadliest records: 87 climbers have died trying to conquer its treacherous slopes since 1954, according to Pakistan’s...
23 sie 2023 · At least 91 people have died trying to summit K2, putting its death rate around 18%, while Everest's is around 3%, according to estimates from veteran mountaineer and climbing coach Alan Arnette.
