Missing K2 climbers declared dead

THREE climbers lost on Pakistan’s K2 are believed to have died on the mountain, a Pakistan official said last Thursday (18), more than a week after the group went missing while trying to summit the world’s second highest peak.

Climbers John Snorri from Iceland,

Juan Pablo Mohr from Chile and Muhammad Ali Sadpara of Pakistan lost contact with base camp on February 5, sparking a rescue effort that included helicopters and planes.

“All the weather experts, climbers, and experts from the Pakistan army have reached the conclusion a human being cannot live for that long in such harsh weather. So we are announcing they are no more,” said Raja Nasir Ali Khan, a provincial minister for tourism in Gilgit-Baltistan, where K2 is located. Khan said the search for the climbers’ bodies would continue.