Even before he arrived at base camp, one of his lead climbers fell terribly ill. Fritz forced himself on but the group of novices he had been obliged to take with him started falling away. By the end you had Fritz at the top and the rest of his team at the bottom of the mountain, desperate to leave.
Tragedy was inevitable. He almost reached the summit. Worse still, one of his colleagues, Dudley Wolfe , remained stranded high up the mountain. They made three attempts to bring Wolfe down but he died on K2. Three Sherpas also perished. When he came back to America, Fritz was interrogated. Why did you leave Dudley Wolfe on the mountain?
Why did the Sherpas die? This was in the context of the war, which had just broken out. And the controversy still rumbles on. Even the successful Italian expedition was dogged by bitter infighting.
Though they made it to the top, the team members spent years arguing and even suing each other. We were taking shots of these striking ice sculptures in the glacier between K2 Base Camp and Camp One. You could hardly see it because the bones had become bleached and were partly embedded in the snow.
There was nothing around it that could identify from whom it came; no clothing or belongings. So we thought it best to leave it where it was, rather than disturb it. It was a chilling reminder of just how dangerous the mountain is.
For a long time there was this strange fact that women who did manage to get to the top either died on the descent or died a few years later. The first to summit was Wanda Rutkiewicz. She got there just ahead of French climber Liliane Barrard , then died on Kanchenjunga six years later. In , Barrard climbed with her husband Maurice Barrard, and they died on the descent.
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On Everest, it is easy to get the occasional fresh bread, veggies and even beer from nearby villages. Forget that on K2. Learn to bake your own bread chapati style in a pan for instance and give the food planning ample attention before you leave home. NPS are unregulated mind-altering substances that have become newly available on the market and are intended to produce the same effects as illegal drugs.
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