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Desolation in the heart of K2

EV Escudero

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When K2 is spoken of as the wild mountain, it is for a reason. If not, let them tell the team led by Nirmal Purja, which these days tries to be the first to get the winter ascent to the most complicated mountain. The only one whose summit no one has stepped on this season of the year.

The Nepalese had reached 7,000 meters high on the mountain days ago, an incredible merit, since never before has it reached so high at such an early date. The raid had allowed them to equip the route and leave key material on the field 2 to be able to carry out an attack on the summit In the next weeks.

The surprise came yesterday, when in a second ascent to field 2, after several days of strong wind and storm, they encountered a real disaster. «We have reached camp 2 and the place was totally destroyed. The two stores that we had left there and all the material that was inside had been blown away by the wind, ”Purja himself acknowledged in a message on his social networks.

The desolation is total in the team, whose achievement of a few days ago has come to nothing. It’s time to start from scratch, trying to collect new material to try to resume the adventure. “We have lost everything: the sleeping bags, the heated boots, the kits, the equipment from the summit attack … I am devastated by this news. We have to rethink everything, “explained the mountaineer.

His lament went through the base camp, where the Spanish Sergi Mingote is, immersed in another team whose objective is the same as Purja’s. The Catalan, co-leader of the expedition sponsored by “Seven Summits”, it reached 6,500 meters ago and he will try to continue equipping the mountain throughout the week with the rest of his teammates.

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