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McCann, Brian Block, David John Watson Broad Peak (8047) France (international) Broad Peak Expedition 2008 (inc. Veikka Gustafsson and Japanese Hirotaka Takeuchi) Jean Pierre Bouchard (L), Remi Brun, Ms. Badia & Mauricio’s website: www.unaparejaenascenso.com Hirotaka’s blog: Blair Halahey’s website: www.blair8000.com Nick Rice’s website: www.nickrice.us French/Spanish Broad Peak Expedition 2008 Slovene/Austrian Himalaya Broad Peak Expedition 2008.
K2: The Killing Peak. Credit: Courtesy Joel Shalowitz/Sharedsummits.com UPDATEWhen we first reported about last summer's disaster on K2 ["The Killing Peak," by Matthew Power, November '08], a few facts had not yet come to light.
As Gerard McDonnell and Marco Confortola began their descent, they came across three members of a Korean expedition, injured and tangled in their ropes. Despite the memory fog of hypoxia, Marco recalled that after trying to save them, he and McDonnell began to head down, but then McDonnell turned around and went back to help. Because McDonnell and the Koreans were killed, what happened next became clear only after press time. Photographic evidence recently showed that McDonnell had in fact freed the Koreans, and that the entire group had begun the trek down. The three climbers watched as the last sliver of sun traced the curvature of the Earth in a belt of dying flame.
Only an hour earlier, they had been jubilant. Reinhold Messner's Mountain Madness. A bright morning during the last week in August, Reinhold Messner left his summer home, a spectacular 13th-century castle in the German-speaking part of northern Italy, and headed by car for the town of Sulden, about an hour west.
The Adige River flashed through groves of apple trees, while high above the valley dairy farms sent their milk to market on cable cars. In three weeks the greatest mountaineer of his generation, maybe the greatest of all time, would be 60. Messner seemed in fine shape: trimmed beard, cloudless blue eyes, only a dusting of gray in his dark, shoulder-length hair. Climbing had cost him the tips of several fingers, along with seven of his toes, but his hairless hands looked eerily smooth and unscathed, as if he had worked all his life at a cosmetics counter. "My knees are going," he conceded when I asked about the ravages of age. Messner's career spans a hundred expeditions and 3,500 rock climbs. "He was a soldier in the army when he was 20," Messner says. 2008 K2 disaster. Coordinates: K2 in summer The 2008 K2 disaster occurred on 1 August 2008, when eleven mountaineers from international expeditions died on K2, the second-highest mountain on Earth.[1] Three others were seriously injured.
It was the worst single accident in the history of K2 mountaineering.[2][3] Expedition goal: K2[edit] K2 is the second-highest mountain on Earth after Mount Everest with a peak elevation of 8,611 metres (28,251 ft), K2 is part of the Karakoram range, not far from the Himalayas, and is located on the border between the Pakistani Gilgit-Baltistan region, and the People's Republic of China's Taxkorgan Tajik Autonomous County of Xinjiang Autonomous Region.[4] It is regarded by mountaineers as far more challenging than Everest, and is generally looked upon as one of the most dangerous mountains in the world.[5] The climbing season at K2 lasts from June to August, but in 2008 adverse weather prevented any groups from summiting during June and July.
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