From nicolas@stam.nl Tue Jul 25 16:22:08 EST 1995 Article: 5433 of rec.climbing Xref: news.nsw.CSIRO.AU rec.climbing:5433 Path: news.nsw.CSIRO.AU!metro!OzEmail!news.mel.aone.net.au!newsfeed.internetmci.com!globe.indirect.com!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!sun4nl!stam!nicolas From: nicolas@stam.nl (Nico Veenkamp) Newsgroups: rec.climbing Subject: spanish climber killed on K2 Message-ID: Date: Fri, 7 Jul 95 10:32:32 -0100 Organization: ten Hagen en Stam bv, Den Haag Lines: 46 >From De Telegraaf: friday 7 july. 38 year old spanish climber Jordi Angles was killed on the slopes of K2 when he was returning after a try for the summit. Together with two other members of the spanish team Angles tried to reach the summit of K2, at 8.611 meters the world's second higest mountain, on wednesday 5 july. Due to heavy snowfall they decided to turn back at 8.300 meters. The accident happened when they descended back to the spanish basecamp Basecamp manager Joost Cohensius of the dutch K2 expedition said that they were astonished that the three decided to keep on descending instead of finding some place to bivouac. Apparently they wanted to return directly back to the spanish basecamp. We kept watching through our binoculars till darkness fell, than went back to our own basecamp. Later we heard from the spanish team that a few went up to meet the three coming back, when one saw suddenly how a light swooped down the mountain. This must have been the headlamp of the unfortunate Jordi Angles. After walking for more than 20 hours he must have fallen asleep, slipped and broke his neck. The spanish used the telephone in the dutch basecamp to report the sad news to Angles' wife. Cohensius words when hearing of the tragedy:" Terrible... ". Some good news: Thierry Schmitter and Hans van der Meulen from the dutch team and two high altitude porters will probably reach today the projected site for Camp 3 at 7.350 meters. Also on his way to Camp 3 is expedition leader Ronald Naar. He is accompanied by british climber Alison Hargreaves who wrote history recently when she was the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest without supplementary oxygen. Edmond Ofner, after breaking his shoulderblade in a rockfall, reported in from Camp 1 (5.950 meters). He plans to reach Camp 2 (at 6.550 meters) today. Breaking a bone in my body will not deter me from reaching the summit Ofner said after his fall. -- *================================================================* | Nico Veenkamp | Internet : nicolas@stam.nl | | ten Hagen & Stam bv | BIX : nicolas@bix.com | | P.O. Box 34 | -------------------------------------| | 2501 AG Den Haag | The only thing on which my employer | | The Netherlands | and myself agree is that we disagree | *================================================================*