2023-08-11 18:38:48
By Le Figaro with AFP
Posted 5 hours ago, Updated 13 minutes ago
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Kristin Harila finds herself at the heart of a controversy after her feat tarnished by the death of a sherpa she would have stepped over in the ascent of K2.
Kristin Harila, joint world record holder of the 14 fastest-climbing peaks over 8,000 meters, has defended herself following criticism accusing her of stepping over a dying sherpa (dressed in yellow in the video below). below) to complete his ascent of K2 in Pakistan. With her Nepali guide Tenjin Sherpa, the Norwegian climbed these 14 peaks in three months and one day (92 days), snatching on July 27 the world record previously held by the Nepalo-British Nirmal Purja.
But that feat has just been tarnished by controversy. Drone footage shared by other climbers shows her and her team passing over the visibly injured body of Mohammad Hassan, a Sherpa from another team who died shortly after, as she continued her ascent of the second peak tallest in the world to break the record.
Netizens are going wild over Kristin Harila
They were at that time on the Bottleneck of K2, a narrow and highly dangerous corridor overlooked by seracs of an ice field just 400 m below the summit.
«Nobody will remember your sporting success, only your inhumanity“wrote a user on Instagram. “Sherpa blood is on your handsadded another. Kristin Harila also came under fire for celebrating her ascent after returning to base camp on the mountainside.
Mohammad Hassan died on K2. Adventure Alpine Guides
The mountaineer claims to have “done everything” to save Mohammad Hassan
Late Thursday, the 37-year-old claimed on Instagram, “have done everything for him (Mohammad Hassan)», denouncing the “death threats” to which she has been subjected since the accident. She assured that she had, in the company of her cameraman Gabriel, as well as two other people including “Hassan’s friend», passé «an hour and a halftrying to pull him up after his fall. It is not indicated where the Sherpa team was, but many climbers were “behind them“, said the Norwegian.
The mountaineer then continued on his way, after an avalanche alert transmitted by his team. Gabriel stayed with Hassan, she said, sharing her oxygen and hot water with him. After another hour, the cameraman decided to leave, as he needed “more oxygen for his own safety“. Upon their descent, they found that Mohammad Hassan, 27, had died.
But his team, made up of four people,was not able to get his body downsafely, because it would have taken at least six people to do it, defended the Norwegian who noted that the Sherpa was not properly equipped.
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His death isreally tragic (…) and I feel very sorry for the family“, she said again, but”we did our best, especially Gabriel».
Many users have come to the defense of Harila, noting the dangers incurred during such an ascent. Others wondered why the Sherpa had not been properly equipped, with one internet user denouncing the unequal treatment between Western mountaineers and Sherpas: “the life of the locals is cheap».
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