News Stories Related To: K-2 the Killer Mountain Strikes Again
By: DrSivana 
Mt. Everest is the world's highest mountain by over 200 meters but K-2 at 8611 meters is the one that strikes terror in the heart of the bravest climber. The ratio of deaths per attempt...
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- Submitted By: DrSivana | about 1 year ago
(August 3, 2008) Those who perished included South Koreans and Nepalese, the Pakistani television station ARY reported. Serbian, Norwegian, Dutch and French climbers were also believed to be among those who might have died, according to ARY. Other ...
- Submitted By: DrSivana | about 1 year ago
Five foreign climbers go missing on K-2 ISLAMABAD, Aug 2: Five foreign mountaineers are missing after being struck by an avalanche during their descent from the world�s second highest peak, K-2, in Pakistan, an expedition ...
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- News Source: Eitb24 | about 1 year agoEFE Heavy mists around K2 prevented a Pakistani army helicopter from attempting to airlift a stricken Italian climber off the world's second-highest mountain on Tuesday, following a climbing disaster that killed 11 others. Hobbling on severely...
- News Source: Independent Bangladesh | about 1 year agoDays after 11 climbers were killed on K2, a frost-bitten Italian man was seen stumbling down the world's second highest mountain on Monday in the hope of being airlifted to safety. Three Pakistani high altitude porters and an American climber had set...
- News Source: The Courier-Mail | about 1 year agoMarco Confortola, 37, was reached by an American climber and Pakistani high altitude porters late yesterday as he struggled alone high on the 8611m peak, the world second highest after Everest. The team were trying to bring him down to an altitude...
- News Source: 7days | about 1 year agoHe will be in shock and is probably fighting to keep alive. �The closest I came to this was during my Everest summit when my oxygen mask packed in and I went for 16 hours without oxygen.
- News Source: GMA News | about 1 year agoAt least nine climbers were feared dead on K-2, the world's second highest mountain, after an avalanche cut ropes used to cross a treacherous wall of ice, officials and other climbers said Sunday. Several other mountaineers were missing, prompting a...
- News Source: The independent | about 1 year agoOfficials say a number of other climbers are missing and that the death toll could rise. In what was described as one of the blackest weekends in mountaineering, six of the climbers were struck by an avalanche while descending from the summit of the...
- News Source: Guardian Unlimited | about 1 year agoAt least nine people have died on K-2 in Pakistan in the most lethal episode for climbers on the world's second-highest peak, expedition organisers said today. Those confirmed dead included three South Koreans, two Nepalese, along with Serbian,...
- News Source: Arizona Republic | about 1 year agoAt least nine climbers are feared dead and five others are missing on the world's second-highest peak in northern Pakistan, which is regarded as more challenging to climb than Mount Everest, officials said Sunday. An avalanche struck a group of...
- News Source: News 24 | about 1 year agoThree South Korean, two Nepali, a Dutch, a Serb, a Norwegian and a Pakistani climbers were among those killed when the disaster struck on the notoriously treacherous Himalayan peak, the world's second highest mountain after Mount Everest. "I can...
- News Source: Turkish Press | about 1 year agoThe avalanche apparently struck an area of the mountain known as the "Bottleneck," where the South Korean and Nepali climbers died, Akram said. "Three Koreans and two Nepalis have died at Bottleneck," Ghulam Muhammad, owner of tour operator Blue Sky...
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