Extreme weather conditions at K2 stops summit push of mountaineers
The mountaineers are likely to push for the summit on Friday morning
KARACHI: Extreme weather conditions above higher camps on K2 has halted the progress of mountaineers who were aiming to push for summit on Thursday.
Several mountaineers, including Abdul Joshi of Hunza, had to abort their summit plans however most are still determined and eager to go for summit once things are cleared.
Naila Kiani, Samina Baig, Wajid Nagri, Steffi Troguet, Sirbaz Ali and Kristin Harlia are still on Camp 4 and were waiting for ropes to be fixed and weather to get better.
They’re likely to push for summit on Friday morning.
“Our Fixing team along with other agencies is aiming to fix the line to the summit of K2 by today (21 July), team already below the bottle neck.”
“All other climbing members are steady at camp for summit push. Unstable wind, some gusts, foggy weather and breaking trail over fresh snow is being challenging. However, fixing team is dedicated and working hard,” said Chhang Dawa Sherpa of Seven Summits in a post on Thursday evening.
Pakistan’s female climber Naila Kiani who is aiming to be the first Pakistani female to summit K2, along with Samina Baig, confirmed her location and wellbeing to Geo News.
“Weather doesn’t look great, not sure if there will be any summits tonight,” Naila Kiani informed this correspondent via satellite communication.
There are also reports of the death of an Afghan climber due to high-altitude sickness but that could not be confirmed by any official.
Meanwhile, Nepal’s famous climber Sanu Sherpa has achieved a unique feat of scaling all 14 8-thousanders twice.
47 year old Sanu Sherpa stood atop 8035m world’s 13th highest peak GII in Pakistan at around 8:17am on Thursday morning completing his double ascent of the 14th 8000er.
He has summitted Mount Everest for 7 times, Manaslu, Nanga Parbat and Lhotse for three times each and other top peaks twice each in his career.
There was also a SOS call by a French climber from Broad Peak who said to be was stuck after being unwell. Local administrations were making arrangements to rescue her.
Source confirmed that climbers on Broad Peak had to abort their plans to summit on Thursday.
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