Australian man dies throughout summit to K2 in Pakistan, third dying this week | World News

An Australian climber has died whereas making an attempt to scale mount K2, the world's second-highest mountain, after he fell throughout his descent, Australian and Pakistani officers mentioned on Thursday.

Pakistani officers mentioned a Canadian mountaineer, who was scaling K2 with the Australian, was lacking and a search was underway.

On Thursday, the Australian Division of Overseas Affairs and Commerce confirmed the dying of the Australian, saying it was “offering consular help to the household of an Australian man who died throughout a climbing expedition in northern Pakistan".

In a press release, it didn't present any additional particulars, saying: “We prolong our condolences to his household and buddies." It didn't disclose the identify of the Australian climber for privateness causes.

Pakistan's English-language The Daybreak newspaper reported this week that the our bodies of the 2 lacking Canadian and Australian mountaineers had been discovered at a location between Camp 1 and Camp 2 of K2.

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Citing unnamed sources, it mentioned the 2 males went lacking on July 19 in two separate incidents.

The dying got here as dozens of climbers from throughout the globe have been making an attempt to scale K2 in northern Pakistan.

K2, on the Chinese language-Pakistani border within the Karakorum Vary, has one of many deadliest information, with most climbers dying on the descent, the place the slightest mistake can set off an avalanche and change into deadly.

Only some hundred have efficiently reached its summit. In distinction, Mount Everest has been summited greater than 9,000 instances.

Thought of extraordinarily tough to climb, K2 isn't solely the second-highest mountain after Mount Everest, its ascent and descent are thought of far more difficult that the world's highest.

K2 can be the coldest and windiest of climbs. At locations alongside the route, climbers should navigate practically sheer rock faces rising 80 levels, whereas avoiding frequent and unpredictable avalanches.