The accusations surrounding events on July 27 on K2, the world’s second-highest peak, overshadowed a record established by Norwegian climber Kristin Harila and her Sherpa guide, Tenjin.
Harila rejected any responsibility for the death of the porter, Mohammed Hassan, a 27-year-old father of three who slipped and fell off a narrow trail in a particularly dangerous area of K2 known as the bottleneck. In an Instagram post Friday, she wrote that she felt “angry at how many people have been blaming others for this tragic death” and that no one was at fault.
Steindl, the Austrian climber, said the drone footage shows one man trying to rub Hassan’s chest, trying to keep him warm and alive somehow. “You can see that the man is desperate,” Steindl said. “I don’t want to kind of directly blame anybody,” Steindl said. “I’m just saying there was no rescue operation initiated and that’s really very, very tragic because that’s actually the most normal thing one would do in a situation like that.”
Asked about Hassan’s gear, Harila said that he did not wear a down suit and he didn’t have gloves, nor did he have oxygen. “We didn’t see any sign of either a mask or oxygen tank,” she said. Anwar Syed, the head of Lela Peak Expedition, the company that Hassan was working for, said he died about 150 meters below the summit. He said several people tried to help, providing oxygen and warmth, to no avail.
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