“Others were still missing after the huge serac broke and fell, sweeping away several climbers and stranding as many as a dozen mountaineers above a steep gully without ropes at a height of about 27,000 feet, not far from the summit.”
Avalanche on K2 Kills 11 Climbers
August 5, 2008 by
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