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Fellow climbers say video footage shows Kristin Harila’s team walking over body of frostbitten man during record ascent

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[–] Kbobabob@lemmy.world 62 points 1 year ago (20 children)

I thought it was common practice to leave them because a rescue attempt would usually kill everyone involved. You either come prepared to go all the way up and all the way down, or you stay on the mountain.

[–] coffeetest@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

K2 is an incredibly dangerous mountain. The possibility of a rescue attempt would depend on many factors that we have no way to know. In these sorts of situations even other climbers nearby might have a complete different opinion. In many cases like this people are often not thinking correctly believing they saw something that wasn't even there or just completely misperceived due to attitude or exhaustion or illness.

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