I didn’t want to listen to all those stories. “It seems frightening at the very beginning. “From the very beginning, I’ve heard stories concerning K2,” Bargiel says. The success during the second attempt was just a consequence.” I think the first attempt was the first step. Without that, it probably wouldn’t have been possible. I needed to digest this first attempt, this failure, and get another perspective in order to be successful the second time. I needed to grow up, I needed to develop myself. From another perspective, it was a long-term project. “But the first attempt made me pretty frustrated because there was so much effort, so much work, so much preparation. “During the first attempt, I was able to verify my assumption that I would be able to climb up this mountain and then ski down. Though it ended in disappointment, Bargiel’s 2017 attempt did serve a purpose. It’s becoming more and more difficult and challenging because of the temperature.”
The warm weather was the consequence of global warming, so I knew that if I didn’t do it the following year, probably that would mean never. “Only after getting some rest, distance and another perspective on the situation did I decide that all those efforts shouldn’t get wasted. I wasn’t fully confident,” Bargiel tells InsideHook via a translator. “While I was leaving K2 for the first time, I wasn’t 100 percent sure I was going to come back. When the 32-year-old left K2 in 2017 after aborting his attempt due to warm weather that led to avalanches of snow and rocks, he wasn’t sure he’d return to give it another go. In fact, of all the attempts to summit and then ski K2, none ended in anything other than death or disappointment until Polish ski mountaineer Andrzej Bargiel attempted it on July 22, 2018, making it from peak to base without once removing his skis.
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The mountain has also attracted a number of elite free skiers over the past three decades, some of whom (Michele Fait, Fredrik Eriksson) died during attempts to scale and then ski down its perilous slopes. The sentiment stuck and K2 has been referred to as “The Savage Mountain” by climbers ever since.īut it’s not just climbers who have made their way to K2 in recent years. “It’s a savage mountain that tries to kill you,” American climber George Bell said of K2 after nearly slipping to his death during a failed ascent of the peak in 1953. Though it is not the deadliest mountain in the world - that honor belongs to Annapurna and its astonishing 33-percent fatality rate - K2 had spelled death for roughly one quarter of the climbers who attempted to ascend it as of June 2018. But what the second tallest mountain on earth lacks in height, it more than makes up for in treachery. It said management were cooperating fully with the investigation and that the centre would reopen once investigators had completed their work.Īlan White, the leader of Staffordshire county council, told the BBC: “We must wait for the circumstances to be established, but I would offer my deepest sympathies at this terrible time to the family and friends of the deceased and to everyone affected by this tragedy.With a summit of 28,251 feet, K2 is 779 feet shorter than its Himalayan neighbor Mount Everest. The directors and staff are deeply shocked by what happened, and our thoughts and prayers are with his family at this terrible time.” The ski centre’s website said on Monday that the centre remained closed to the public for now.Ī statement from the centre’s operators released over the weekend said: “The SnowDome is to remain temporarily closed following the tragic death of a child on Friday evening. West Midlands ambulance service previously said the boy died “after an incident on the slope”. Staffordshire police are continuing to investigate the circumstances with support from the Health and Safety Executive.” We would ask everyone to respect the family’s right to grieve in private during this extremely difficult time. “Louis’s family are being supported by specially trained officers. Sadly, Louis, died of his injuries shortly afterwards. Officers attended the location, along with ambulance crews. The force said in a statement: “Police were called at 6.40pm on September 24 to reports that a child had been seriously injured at the SnowDome. Louis Watkiss, of Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands, was fatally injured at the SnowDome in Tamworth on Friday evening, Staffordshire police said. Police have named a 12-year-old boy who died in an incident at an indoor ski and snowboarding centre.
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