Welcome to When It Goes Wrong, the podcast about disasters, accidents and when things fall apart. On this episode, we discuss the tragedy which befell the mountaineers on K2 in 2008. Where over the course of a day, 11 climbers would perish. We go through the key concepts for scaling the mountain and cover the fateful events.
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Key sources:
The Summit - Documentary
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2010/nov/13/k2-accident-himalayas-climbers-families
https://basecampmagazine.com/2018/02/12/the-2008-k2-tragedy/
https://www.businessinsider.com/the-summit-2008-k2-tragedy-2013-10?r=US&IR=T
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/death-or-glory-truth-about-k2-909516.html
https://besthikinggears.com/k2-bottleneck/
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