Top 6 Worst Deaths on K2 in Human History

Imagine you’re climbing a snow-covered mountain. The temperature is around -20°F and getting colder by the second. The air up here is thin, so oxygen is a luxury. Breathing is a struggle, and the harsh reflection of the sun on the white snow is literally blinding you. Your legs ache from the climb you have endured so far, and your mind aches from the climb that is still ahead. Each step you take sinks knee-deep, making it harder to put one foot in front of another. Will you make it to the top, or will you collapse in the deadly comfort of the snow?
This is the ascent of one of the deadliest mountains in the world - K2. Join us as we discuss 6 of the worst incidents on the Savage Mountain in human history.
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[gcprost]

I met a Canadian climber that climbed K2. He and his group were hit by an avalanche. They were not killed but the avalanche swept a lot of their gear. Luckily they accidentally found a cache of gear left on the mountain many years before. This gear saved their lives.

[brendaduncan]

You ask, "If you were here, what would you have done?" I can guarantee you, I would not have been there!

[uncleben]

The Sherpas are the real badasses they carry themselves AND all the equipment the rich people pay them to carry!

[lisaperry]

"Summiting is optional descending is mandatory."
Ed Visteurs

[Kiltoonie]

I've climbed and caved for many years, risked my neck a few times, but could never see the attraction of this kind of extreme adventure - the risks are simply too high, and the glory rather short-lived and vain.

[jamesm]

Generally speaking, you got to be a pretty good climber just to die on K2, its _easiest_ route via the Abruzzi Spur is much more technical and significantly more difficult than most the routes up Everest. Conversely, this means the retreat down K2 is slow and exacting, and coupled with the fact that K2 has the lowest temperatures and the most brutal storms of any 8000M peak, the appalling toll it takes upon its summiteers while they’re on the way down, is no mystery.

[annapee]

Can you imagine climbing in a line with all those people. Has absolutely no appeal. I remember watching a documentary on Everest and it looked awful

[MissTeaq]

It boggles my mind in terms of the why. He was saving up to ease the financial pressure his mother was experiencing. Which increased exponentially when he met his demise.
I offer my most sincere condolences to his beloved family he left behind.

[julesm]

The package includes free snow burial, before or after summiting. Good deal. It's a win-win situation.

[donnaleduc]

I cannot imagine what makes climbing a mountain more important than a human life.

[glorial]

Terrible & sad how much work the Sherpas do & how little respect & pay they get.

[hithere_]

“Hey! 1 out of 3 people who try to climb this mountain die… Wanna go up?”
“Yeah! I’m!”

[ralphaverill]

K-2 has not "taken" any lives; it's just a big rock. Some people risked their lives on the mountain and lost. The blame is all their's; not the mountain's.

[danielfox]

Love how they don't mention poor Rolf was snatched away by that avalanche right in front of his wife after volunteering to go first and asking his friend to "watch my wife" and she was beautiful. Just a tragedy among tragedies

[fumanpoo]

I will stick to my savage couch. Sometimes I have to perform a horrific 15' traverse around the Lazy Boy to the fridge. Sometimes, the remote vanishes and an ardous trip into the dead TV zone is necessary to change the channel by hand.

[DATo_DATonian]

I find it incredible that people would risk their lives for something of no value to anyone living or dead. There are so many other ways to find happiness and fulfillment in life.

[Schizniit]

K2 hasn't taken more lives than Everest, it just has a higher rate of deaths. You have to understand that MANY people attempt Everest every year while only few ever attempt K2 since it is considered to be significantly more difficult

[xenia]

People dropping dead next to you, and then continuing your path to the summit. I would be so in shock, and terrified. How to continue from that is beyond me, and so traumatizing passing someone dying without giving them the comfort, a word, or a touch. Leaving someone to die, stepping over a person feels inhuman.
I know you can’t safe the person, but acknowledging them, or even holding their hand.

It just seems so cruel to me, it would not leave my brain for the rest of my life. I wouldn’t care anymore about that dumb summit if I see someone dying, a father of three children

[ritamengucci]

I don't like being cold, so I'd never attempt such a climb!

[lillm]

You are wrong about people not helping Muhammed.
Harila and her team tried to help him for about 90 minutes, then they had to move because of other people waiting, but one man from her team stayed with him longer. Then he had to head back to camp because of low oxygen.
Oh, and he was a Porter, he didn’t fix ropes. He decided himself to push for the summit even though he had been warned several times.