As of 3:30 am, Monday, February 8, 2021,(Pakistan Standard Time), John Snorri, Muhammad Ali Sadpara, and Juan Pablo (JP) Mohr Prieto remain missing, with no trace of them found after multiple helicopter searches.
John Snorri of Iceland, Muhammad Sadpara of Pakistan, and Juan Pablo "JP" Mohr Prieto of Chile set off on a summit push around 30 hours ago. Their GPS trackers have died and there has been no sign of the climbers. Another climber, Atanas Georgiev Skatov, died lower on the mountain following his own aborted summit attempt.
Around 5:00 pm on Saturday, January 16, 2021, a team of 10 Sherpas and Nepalis stood on the summit of the world’s second-highest mountain, K2, on the border of Pakistan and China. It was the last of the world's 14 8,000 meter peaks still unclimbed in winter.
The historic first winter summit of K2 may happen on Saturday, January 16, 2021, by an all Nepali team.
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What will it ultimately take for a team to bag the first winter summit of K2?
The mountains are now free of climbers. Another season, with summits, deaths, rescues and other drama comes to an end.
As the weather has improved in the Karakoram, there have been all sorts of developments.
This is the third death in two weeks to come out of the climbing teams in Pakistan.
A tragic death, the details of which are still becoming clear.
Veteran Himalayan and Karakoram climber-chronicler Alan Arnette updates us on the status of the 2018 climbing season in Pakistan's Karakorum
Veteran Himalayan and Karakoram climber-chronicler Alan Arnette gives us an early update on the goings-on of the 2018 climbing season on Pakistan's 8,000-meter peaks.