First in History: Mountaineers Summit K2 In Winter
A team of mountaineers made history by climbing to the summit of mount K2 for the first time in winters
Secretary of the Alpine Club of Pakistan, Qarar Haidri announced that 10 Nepali mountaineers have climbed K2 in the winter and are now heading back to Camp 4.
Some 13 of the world’s 14 highest peaks were topped in the winter season. However, K2 was the only peak in the world that had not been summited.
The climbers have made history by completing this extremely difficult expedition.
A team of mountaineers from Nepal set out for K2 summit and reached Camp Four located above 7,800 meters on Friday.
K2 is also known as a ‘savage mountain’ and had never been climbed by mountaineers during the winter season.
This year, over a dozen climbers from four countries including the United States, Iceland, Spain, and Nepal arrived in Pakistan to make it to the top of the dangerous mountain.
They set on the mission of climbing K2 by taking the risk of avalanches, powerful winds, and low temperatures dropping to -65 degrees centigrades.
The mountain has been scaled by more than 300 climbers during the spring and summer seasons, but there had been only five winter attempts before 2019.
On Friday, while the four climbers made it to Camp Four, Pakistani mountaineer Ali Sadpara and Nepal’s Nirmal Purja also made their way to the same altitude from Camp 3.
Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) had stated that the weather will be clear on Saturday, which will facilitate the journey up the mountain.
Jangbu Sherpa, a climber from Nepal, received head injuries on Friday and was shifted to the Base Camp for treatment.
He was hit by a falling rock above Camp 1 yesterday and sustained serious injuries on face. Jangbu is the fourth person to be evacuated since the expedition started.
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It is worth mentioning here that 86 climbers have died on the slopes of the savage mountain.
