Confronting footage captures the controversial moments that climbers step round dying porter Mohammed Hassan on their option to the highest of the mountain famend for being the world’s deadliest on July 27.
Norwegian mountaineer Kristin Harila is on the centre of the controversy. On reaching K2’s summit, the 37-year-old set the velocity document for climbing the world’s highest 14 peaks (the planet’s solely summits above 8000 metres), reaching the feat in simply 92 days.
But at what price? Harila and different climbers have been accused of placing private glory forward of humanity.
Austrian mountaineer Philip Flämig shot the footage and claims that Hassan was nonetheless transferring three hours after his critical fall and remained alive.
“This man was still alive while around 50 people climbed past him,” Flämig informed Austrian newspaper Der Standard.
“I feel angry at how many people have been blaming others for this tragic accident. This was no one’s fault, you cannot comment when you do not understand the situation, and sending death threats is never okay,” she wrote.
In her prolonged put up, she went on to elucidate that a number of members of her staff, herself included, tried to help the fallen porter for 90 minutes earlier than an avalanche misery name pressured her to depart Hassan along with her cameraman to go larger up.
Hassan was reportedly an inexperienced operator in excessive alpine environments, having beforehand solely labored at base camp. However he took on the function with a rope-fixing staff at excessive elevations to earn cash to pay for his mom’s medical therapy.
Source: www.9news.com.au
