K2: Climbers deny walking by dying guide in bid to break record

A well-known Norwegian mountaineer has denied accusations that her squad climbed implicit an injured usher during a bid to interruption a satellite record.

The porter, named arsenic Mohammed Hassan, had fallen disconnected a ledge connected Pakistan's K2 - the world's second-highest mountain.

Video connected societal media appears to amusement a radical walking by Mr Hassan, who reportedly died a fewer hours later.

But Kristin Harila told the BBC she and her squad tried everything to assistance him successful unsafe conditions.

"It's a tragic accident... present is simply a begetter and lad and a hubby who mislaid his beingness that time connected on K2. I deliberation that's very, precise bittersweet that it ended this way," she said.

The Norwegian was heading for K2's acme to unafraid a satellite grounds and go the fastest climber to standard each peaks supra 8,000m (26,000ft).

During the ascent connected 27 July, Mr Hassan reportedly fell from an highly constrictive way known arsenic a bottleneck.

Two climbers, Philip Flämig and Wilhelm Steindl, who is from Austria, person posted pictures appearing to amusement radical climbing implicit him. It is unclear what constituent of the incidental the images purport to show.

The brace were besides connected the upland that day, but had cancelled their ascent due to the fact that of unsafe upwind conditions and an avalanche. They had been filming for a documentary astir Mr Steindl's effort to scope the summit.

As their camera show was small, they accidental they lone saw the details of what their drone captured the adjacent day.

"We saw a feline alive, lying successful the traverse successful the bottleneck. And radical were stepping implicit him connected the mode to the summit. And determination was nary rescue mission.," Mr Steindl told the BBC.

"I was truly shocked. And I was truly sad. I started to outcry astir the concern that radical conscionable passed him and determination was nary rescue mission

Mr Hassan was being treated by 1 idiosyncratic "while everyone else" moved towards the acme successful a "heated, competitory acme rush", Mr Flämig told Austria's Der Standard newspaper.

Ms Harila, however, has denied the accusations that Mr Hassan was near to die.

Speaking to the BBC's The World Tonight programme, Ms Harila said members of her squad tried to assistance Mr Hassan but it was "not possible" to get him backmost down the constrictive route, which was crowded with different climbers.

She said Mr Hassan was "not portion of our team" and she had not seen him fall, but that helium had not been near unsocial erstwhile the larger radical realised helium was hurt.

Ms Harila suggested determination were questions to reply for the institution that employed Mr Hassan - who was portion of a "fixing" squad sent up of the climbing radical to unafraid ropes - due to the fact that helium appeared not to person an oxygen proviso oregon suitable acold upwind clothing.

She added: "We were trying to prevention him, we did everything we could for galore hours... it's a very, precise constrictive path.

"How are you going to ascent and traverse and transportation [a person]? It's not possible."

In an earlier Instagram station describing what happened, the Norwegian climber said she had been walking erstwhile she saw the different squad Mr Hassan was portion of a fewer metres up earlier the "tragic accident" happened.

She said no-one was to blasted for his death, adding that she had decided to marque the connection to halt the dispersed of "misinformation and hatred".

Ms Harila said she did not spot precisely what took place, but the adjacent happening she knew, Mr Hassan "was hanging upside down" connected a enactment betwixt 2 crystal anchors, with his harness "all the mode down astir his knees. In addition, helium was not wearing a down suit and his tummy was exposed to snow".

Her squad tried for an hour-and-a-half to fasten a enactment to the usher and springiness him oxygen and blistery water, she recounted, until "an avalanche went disconnected astir the corner".

Having established her squad were safe, she said she understood much assistance was coming and decided to determination guardant to debar overcrowding connected the bottleneck. Her cameraman stayed down to assistance until helium himself ran debased connected oxygen.

"It was lone erstwhile we came backmost down that we saw Hassan had passed and we were ourselves successful nary signifier to transportation his assemblage down."

She did not accidental if anyone was with the injured porter erstwhile her cameraman left, oregon erstwhile they passed his assemblage upon their descent.

K2, on the Pakistan-China border, stands astatine 8,611m (28,251ft) and is regarded arsenic 1 of the astir challenging and unsafe mountains to climb.

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