Schuetzenweber
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 Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 8:35 pm GMT |
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| Quote: | | Cas Van De Gevel, the rescued Dutch climber, lies on a bed at a local hospital in the northern Pakistani town of Skardu August 4, 2008. Days after 11 fellow climbers were killed on K2, an Italian refused to succumb to frostbite and exhaustion as he stumbled down the world's second highest mountain on Monday in the hope of being airlifted to safety. |
| Quote: | | Dutch climber Wilco Van Rooijen is seen in a bed of a military hospital where is was taken after being rescued from K-2's base camp, in Skardu, Pakistan, Monday, Aug. 4, 2008. A helicopter plucked two frostbitten Dutch climbers from K-2 on Monday after an avalanche and exposure left at least 11 people missing and believed dead on the world's second-highest mountain. |
| Quote: | | Norwegian climber Rolf Bae poses in South Georgia, part of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (SGSSI), a British overseas territory in the southern Atlantic Ocean in this undated 2006 photo. Norwegian media are reporting that climber Rolf Bae, 33, died in the disaster, while his wife is reportedly trying to make her way down with two other Norwegians. At least nine mountaineers died near the summit of K2 in the Himalayas when a huge chunk of ice sheared off the mountain and hit them, and several more climbers were missing, Pakistani tour operators said on August 3, 2008. Three South Koreans, two Nepalis, a Dutch, a Serb, a Norwegian and a Pakistani climber were killed on the notoriously treacherous Himalayan peak, the world's second highest mountain after Mount Everest. |
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| Quote: | | Undated file picture of Norwegian mountaineer Rolf Bae, 33. At least nine mountaineers died near the summit of K2 in the Himalayas when a huge chunk of ice sheared off the mountain and hit them, and several more climbers were missing, Pakistani tour operators said on August 3, 2008. Three South Koreans, two Nepalis, a Dutch, a Serb, a Norwegian and a Pakistani climber were killed on the notoriously treacherous Himalayan peak, the world's second highest mountain after Mount Everest. Norwegian media are reporting that climber Bae died in the disaster, while his wife is reportedly trying to make her way down with two other Norwegians. |
| Quote: | | In this undated 2006 photo Irish climbers Gerard McDonnell (L), Pat Falvey (R) and Clare O'Leary (C) trek during an expedition in South Georgia, part of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (SGSSI), a British overseas territory in the southern Atlantic Ocean. At least nine mountaineers died near the summit of K2 in the Himalayas when a huge chunk of ice sheared off the mountain and hit them, and several more climbers were missing, Pakistani tour operators said on August 3, 2008. Missing Irishman Gerard McDonnell, 37, an Alaska-based oil worker from Limerick in southwestern Ireland who has climbed Everest, was given up for dead by an experienced mountaineering friend. "At present it is believed that anyone who is classified as position unknown will not be coming back," Pat Falvey told. |
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| Quote: | | Climber Gerard McDonnell, from Limerick in southwestern Ireland, poses in his ice cave in this undated 2005 photo taken on Denali, or Mount McKinley in Alaska. At least nine mountaineers died near the summit of K2 in the Himalayas when a huge chunk of ice sheared off the mountain and hit them, and several more climbers were missing, Pakistani tour operators said on August 3, 2008. Missing Irishman Gerard McDonnell, 37, an Alaska-based oil worker, who has climbed Everest, was given up for dead by an experienced mountaineering friend. "At present it is believed that anyone who is classified as position unknown will not be coming back," Pat Falvey told. |
| Quote: | | The world's second tallest mountain K-2 is seen in the Himalayan Karakoram ranges of Pakistan in this undated handout photo. At least five climbers from a South Korean team were killed by an avalanche near the summit of K-2, the world's second highest mountain, and there were fears climbers from other teams may have perished also, expedition organisers said on August 3, 2008. |
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