Just today we got the news here in Spain that a spanish alpinist, Sergi Mingote, died while descending from K2. There were multiple teams attempting this, then?
There were several teams, and it’s my understanding that some of them had paying clients, which is pretty controversial. I saw a bunch of social media posts that were veiled complaints about bringing paid clients into a such a serious situation.
With the possible exception of the other teams on the mountain, I think all the big mountain climbers are psyched that it was the Sherpas to do it.
> There are around 20 climbers aspiring to summit, and claim a winter K2 summit. Some have acclimatized to Camp 3 but most have only reached Camp 1. Some will end their effort based on today’s first summit, and citing rockfall danger, others will still retain their motivation. We’ll see what the final K2 winter 2020/21 total is in a few weeks.
I believe so. As I understand it (this is all third hand so take it with a pinch of salt) there are other teams who are waiting for another weather window to make an attempt.
