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Bad weather, the first winter expedition to K2 stops

2021-02-10T12:59:08.621Z


Due to bad weather, which caused three deaths and three missing, western mountaineers have announced the end of the first international winter expedition on the K-2. (HANDLE)


(ANSA) - ISLAMABAD, 10 FEB - Due to bad weather, which caused three deaths and three missing, western mountaineers have announced the end of the first international winter expedition on the K-2. The only ones to reach the summit during the K2 2020-21 expedition, 10 Nepalese mountaineers who made the history by climbing for the first time to the second highest peak in the world in prohibitive weather conditions. The two Italian mountaineers who participated in the expedition, MattiaIgnazio Conte and Tamara Lunger, return home. "Due to bad weather, foreign mountaineers have decided to end the Winter K2Expedition 2020-21", Karrar Haidri, secretary of the Pakistan Alpine Club told ANSA. He added that the foreign mountaineers have already moved from base camp to the city of Skardu. On 19 December 2020, about 50 climbers from various countries arrived in Pakistan. Having reached K2 base camp on 29 December, they had started the winter expedition. One after another, the Spaniard Sergio Mingote Moreno, the Russian-American Alex Goldfarb and the Bulgarian Atanas Georgiev Skatov lost their lives in different circumstances. Three others, Icelandic JohnSnorri, Pakistani Ali Sadpara and Chilean Juan Pablo Mohr, have disappeared since last Friday. K2, conquered the first time in 1954 by the Italian expedition of Achille Compagnoni andLino Lacedelli, was the only one of the 8000ers not to have climbed in winter, a record now achieved by the Nepalese team, while the mountains and bad weather have defeated the western ropes. (HANDLE).


Source: ansa

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