A pal of a Pakistani porter who died on K2 has criticised the record-breaking mountaineers who allegedly walked previous him to succeed in the mountain’s summit and described their behaviour as “below humanity”.
Mohammed Hassan, 27, slipped and fell off a slim path in a very harmful space of K2, the world’s second-highest peak, often called the bottleneck.
Renowned Norwegian mountaineer Kristin Harila has denied claims her group stepped over a dying Mr Hassan as a part of a world report bid final month after video emerged displaying climbers showing to step over the excessive porter.
Basharat Hussain, a childhood pal of Mr Hassan, described it as “the most dehumanising event of [his] life”.
Muhammad Hassan, a 27-year-old father-of-three, from Pakistan, who died on K2
He stated: “The climbers, who scaled the K2 this 12 months, I perceive their behaviour was beneath humanity and it was very saddening, after they walked previous the person after he was gravely injured in a fall and so they scaled the K2.
“I think this is the most dehumanising event in my life. It may have not happened in the past, it has not happened in the present, and I hope it will not happen in the future.”
An investigation has been launched into the claims that climbers left Mr Hassan to die close to the height of the world’s most treacherous mountain.
Harila, 37, has rejected any duty for the dying of the daddy of three and stated she is the sufferer of “misinformation” and has had “hatred” geared toward her – together with dying threats.
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Climbers ‘step over’ dying porter
Last month, she turned the quickest climber to scale all of the world’s 14 highest mountains – finishing the achievement in simply 92 days.
Her ultimate climb was of K2 on 27 July, after which she arrived with fellow record-breaker, Nepali mountaineer Tenjen (Lama) Sherpa, in Kathmandu to a hero’s welcome.
But in the course of the K2 climb, a neighborhood helper who was a part of a group forward of them, slipped a number of metres from a slim ledge, turned tangled in ropes and later died on the mountain.
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Harila has defended herself in opposition to allegations from two different climbers who have been on K2 that day, Austrian Wilhelm Steindl and German Philip Flaemig.
The pair had aborted their climb due to tough climate situations, however stated they reconstructed the occasions later by reviewing drone footage.
The investigation is being performed by officers within the Gilgit-Baltistan area which has jurisdiction over K2, stated Karrar Haidri, the secretary of the Pakistan Alpine Club, a sports organisation that additionally serves because the governing physique for mountaineering in Pakistan.
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