Bernie Ecclestoned@sh.itjust.works to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoNorwegian climber says it would have been impossible to carry injured Pakistani porter down snowy K2apnews.comexternal-linkmessage-square49fedilinkarrow-up1136arrow-down15
arrow-up1131arrow-down1external-linkNorwegian climber says it would have been impossible to carry injured Pakistani porter down snowy K2apnews.comBernie Ecclestoned@sh.itjust.works to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square49fedilink
minus-squarelivus@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·1 year ago One in four climbers on K2 does not make it back. This is a very misleading statement and the stats just don’t back you up. Look at the number of people on K2 in the pictures and video taken on the day in question. Yet only one person died. You are confusing climbing with summiting and you are including numbers from the 1930s.
minus-squareanarchotoothbrushist@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year agoThanks for pointing this out. Details here if anyone is interested: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_deaths_on_eight-thousanders#K2 This is the stat the top-level comment is misinterpreting: As of February 2021, 377 people have completed a summit of the mountain, while 91 have died trying, a staggering 4:1 ratio.
This is a very misleading statement and the stats just don’t back you up.
Look at the number of people on K2 in the pictures and video taken on the day in question. Yet only one person died.
You are confusing climbing with summiting and you are including numbers from the 1930s.
Thanks for pointing this out.
Details here if anyone is interested: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_deaths_on_eight-thousanders#K2
This is the stat the top-level comment is misinterpreting: