Mountaineering tragedy.

This seemed rather prescient, considering the recent weeklong exploration we did recently of mountaineering literature (see here for a review of Jordan's Savage Summit, featuring K-2).

My heart goes out to the families of these climbers. Nine climbers are missing on K-2, which is the second-highest mountain in the world (785 feet shorter than Everest, but steeper and with even more changeable weather conditions). An avalanche appears to have taken out the ropes on part of the descent. Some climbers appear to have been killed in the avalanche, and others were stranded without the ropes at a point called the "Bottleneck," 9,000 feet up the south face.
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