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Dozens of climbers are alleged to have walked past Mohammed Hassan in their eagerness to reach the summit of K2 after he was gravely injured in a fall. The claims overshadowed a record-breaking climb by Norwegian mountaineer Kristin Harila and her Nepalese guide Tenjen (Lama) Sherpa.

An investigation has been launched into claims climbers left a porter to die near the peak of the world's most treacherous mountain, a mountaineer has said.

Dozens of climbers are alleged to have walked past the Pakistani helper in their eagerness to reach the summit of K2 after he was gravely injured in a fall.

The accusations surrounding the events on 27 July on the world's second-highest peak overshadowed a record-breaking climb by Norwegian mountaineer Kristin Harila and her Nepalese guide Tenjen (Lama) Sherpa. They became the fastest climbers to scale the world's 14 highest mountains, which took 92 days.

She has 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 the mountain known as the bottleneck.

She was defending herself against allegations made by two other climbers who were on K2 that day, Austrian Wilhelm Steindl and German Philip Flaemig, who had aborted their climb because of adverse weather conditions but said they reconstructed events later by reviewing drone footage.

The footage appeared to show dozens of climbers passing a gravely injured Mr Hassan instead of coming to his rescue.

Mr Steindl alleged the porter could have been saved if the other climbers, including Ms Harila and her team, had given up their attempt to reach the summit.

"There is a double standard here. If I or any other Westerner had been lying there, everything would have been done to save them," Mr Steindl told the Associated Press. "Everyone would have had to turn back to bring the injured person back down to the valley."

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world...e09a28ec&ei=43


the video footgage does appear to show them walking past the injured porter