5 Most HORRIFIC K2 Incidents in Human History...
22 Video Views·Mar 19, 2026
On August 2nd, 2008, rescue teams on K2 found a single crampon frozen into the ice at 8,200 meters with no climber attached to it. Eleven people had left for the summit the night before and the mountain had taken most of them before sunrise. What no one could explain was how a written warning, submitted that same morning by the lead Sherpa, had been read by every expedition leader on the mountain and ignored by all of them.