How one climber's false summit claim helped turn K2 into a graveyard

High-altitude mountaineering is unforgiving in ways that don't leave room for ambiguity, ego, or misinformation. A new video from Mountain Disasters revisits the July 28, 2019, tragedy on K2, where a single false claim about turning back triggered a cascade of deadly decisions that left multiple climbers dead. — Read the rest

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