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-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.
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: