How one climber’s false summit claim helped turn K2 into a graveyard
High-altitude mountaineering is unforgiving in ways that don’t leave room for ambiguity, ego, or misinformation.
High-altitude mountaineering is unforgiving in ways that don’t leave room for ambiguity, ego, or misinformation. A new video from Mountain Disasters revisits the July 28, 2019, tragedy on K2, where a single false claim about turning back triggered a cascade of deadly decisions that left multiple climbers dead.
According to the video’s detailed breakdown,…
