Ascents suspended after 3 climbers go missing on K2

(10 Feb 2021) A search and rescue operation for three climbers who went missing while attempting to scale K2 could not resume for the straight second day on Wednesday because of bad weather, said Karrar Haidri, the head of the Pakistan Alpine Club.
Pakistani authorities suspended all winter ascents, effective immediately, a mountaineering official said on Wednesday.
The development comes after Pakistan climber Ali Sadpara, Jon Snorri of Iceland and Juan Pablo Mohr of Chile lost contact with base camp on Saturday.
Their support team has not received any communications from the 8,611 meter (28,250-foot) high K2, the world's second highest peak, sometimes referred to as “killer mountain.”
Haidri said about two dozen climbers from various countries, who were trying to scale K2, were heading back to their base camps after the immediate suspension of winter expeditions.
Located in the Karakorum mountain range, K2 is one of the most dangerous climbs - and  never accomplished in winter until last month, when a team of 10 Nepalese climbers made history by scaling it.
Bad weather has plagued the search. It was halted on Monday as heavy clouds enveloped most of K2.
Since then, no helicopter could fly amid diminishing hope for the survival of missing climbers, Haidri said.
He said authorities were meeting Wednesday to decide how to handle the situation amid continuing bad weather.
At K2, winds can blow at more than 200 kph (125 mph) and temperatures can drop to minus 60 degrees Celsius (minus 76 Fahrenheit).

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