{"id":1998852,"date":"2023-08-12T14:27:12","date_gmt":"2023-08-12T18:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/investigation-opened-against-k2-climbers-accused-of-ignoring-fatally-injured-man\/"},"modified":"2023-08-12T14:31:08","modified_gmt":"2023-08-12T18:31:08","slug":"investigation-opened-against-k2-climbers-accused-of-ignoring-fatally-injured-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/investigation-opened-against-k2-climbers-accused-of-ignoring-fatally-injured-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Investigation launched on K2 climbers accused of neglecting fatally injured man."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Finvestigation-opened-against-k2-climbers-accused-of-ignoring-fatally-injured-man%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1998852&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>An Investigation \u2063into the Death of a Pakistani Porter\u200b on K2<\/h2>\n<p>An investigation has been launched into \u200bthe \u2063death of \u200ba Pakistani porter near the peak of the world\u2019s most \u200dtreacherous mountain, a Pakistani mountaineer\u2064 said Saturday. The investigation follows allegations that dozens of climbers eager to reach the summit had walked past the man after he was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-chaos-from-travis-scotts-astroworld-has-9-year-old-on-life-support\/\" title=\"Report: Chaos from Travis Scott's Astroworld Has 9-Year-Old on Life Support\">gravely injured<\/a> in a fall.<\/p>\n<h3>Record-Breaking \u200cClimb Overshadowed by Controversy<\/h3>\n<p>The accusations surrounding \u2064events on July\u2062 27\u200b on K2, the world\u2019s second-highest peak, overshadowed a record\u200b established by Norwegian climber Kristin Harila and her Sherpa guide Tenjin. By climbing K2 that day, they became \u2063the world\u2019s \u200dfastest \u2064climbers, scaling\u200b the world\u2019s 14 highest\u200c mountains\u2064 in 92 days.<\/p>\n<p>Harila rejected any responsibility for the death of the porter, Mohammed Hassan, a 27-year-old father of\u2062 three who slipped and fell off a narrow trail \u200cin a particularly dangerous area of K2 \u2014 known as the\u2062 bottleneck.\u200c In an Instagram post Friday, she wrote that she felt \u201cangry at how many people have been blaming others\u200d for this tragic death\u201d and that no \u200cone was at fault.<\/p>\n<p>Harila was defending herself\u2062 against allegations \u200bfrom two\u2063 other climbers who \u200cwere on K2 that day, Austrian Wilhelm Steindl and \u2062German Philip Flaemig. The pair had aborted\u200d their climb because of difficult \u200cweather \u2062conditions but \u200dsaid they reconstructed the events later by\u2063 reviewing drone footage.<\/p>\n<p>The footage\u2063 showed dozens of climbers passing a gravely injured \u200dHassan instead of\u2064 coming to his rescue, Steindl told The Associated Press on Saturday. He alleged that the porter could have been saved \u2064if the other climbers, including Harila and her team,\u2062 had given up attempts to reach the summit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a double standard here.\u2064 If I or any other Westerner \u200chad\u200b been lying there, everything would have been done \u2064to\u200c save them,\u201d Steindl said.\u2063 \u201cEveryone would have had to turn back to bring the injured person back down to the \u2062valley.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Harila told \u200cSky News that Hassan had been \u2062dangling from a rope, head down, after his fall\u200c at the bottleneck, which she described \u2063as \u201cprobably the most dangerous part of K2.\u201d She said that after about an hour, her team\u200c was able to \u2063pull him back onto the trail.<\/p>\n<p>At \u200csome point, she and another person\u200c from her team decided\u200b to \u2064continue \u2063to the top while another team member stayed with Hassan, giving him \u200cwarm \u200dwater and \u2062oxygen from his own mask, the climber said.<\/p>\n<p>Harila said she decided to \u200ccontinue moving toward the summit because her \u2063forward \u2064fixing team also ran into \u2064difficulties, which she did not further detail in the interview.<\/p>\n<p>Asked about Hassan\u2019s gear, Harila said that he did not wear a down\u200c suit \u2062and didn\u2019t have gloves, nor did he have oxygen. \u201cWe didn\u2019t see any \u2064sign of either a mask or oxygen tank,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<h3>Investigation Launched into\u200c Hassan\u2019s Death<\/h3>\n<p>Meanwhile, \u200can\u200b investigation has been launched into Hassan\u2019s death, said Karrar Haidri, the secretary of \u2062the Pakistan Alpine Club, a \u2063sports organization that also\u200d serves as the governing body for mountaineering in \u2063Pakistan. \u200bThe investigation is being conducted by\u200c officials in the Gilgit-Baltistan \u2062region which has jurisdiction \u200cover\u200c K2, Haidri said.<\/p>\n<p>Anwar \u2063Syed, the head of Lela Peak Expedition, \u200dthe company handling\u2064 Harila\u2019s expedition,\u2063 said Hassan died about 490 feet below the\u2064 summit. He said several people tried to help, providing oxygen and warmth, to no avail.<\/p>\n<p>Syed said that because\u200d of the bottleneck\u2019s dangerous conditions, it would not\u200b be possible to retrieve Hassan\u2019s body and hand it to \u2064the family. He said\u2063 his company gave money to Hassan\u2019s family and would continue to help, but he did not\u200d elaborate.<\/p>\n<p>Asked about Hassan\u2019s apparent lack of equipment, Syed said that\u200d the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/investigation-opened-against-k2-climbers-accused-of-ignoring-fatally-injured-man\/\" title=\"Investigation launched on K2 climbers accused of neglecting fatally injured man.\">expedition company pays money<\/a> to porters to buy gear\u200d and that Hassan was paid the agreed upon amount.<\/p>\n<p>Steindl\u2019s fellow climber, Flaemig, alleged\u2062 in an\u200d interview with \u200cthe Austrian newspaper Der Standard that \u2062Hassan had no high-altitude experience. \u201cHe wasn\u2019t equipped properly. He did not have experience.\u200c He was a base camp porter and for the first time\u200b was picked to be a high-altitude porter. \u200bHe wasn\u2019t qualified for\u2063 this,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Steindl visited Hassan\u2019s family and set up a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/t-72-tanks-are-headed-to-ukraine-to-fight-russia\/\" title=\"T-72 Tanks Are Headed to Ukraine to Fight Russia\">crowd-funding campaign<\/a>. By Saturday, after three days, donations reached more than $125,000.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI saw the suffering of the \u2064family,\u201d Steindl\u200c told AP. \u201cThe widow told me that her husband did all \u200dthis so that his children \u200bwould have a chance\u2064 in life, so that they could go to school.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style: italic\">The Western Journal has reviewed this Associated Press story and may have altered it prior to publication to \u2062ensure that it meets our editorial \u200dstandards.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ap-investigation-opened-k2-climbers-accused-ignoring-fatally-injured-man\/\">Investigation Opened Against K2 \u200dClimbers Accused of Ignoring Fatally Injured Man<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the death of a Pakistani porter near the treacherous mountain peak are being probed. Climbers are accused of ignoring the injured man as they rushed to reach the summit. 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