K2: What The Mainstream Media Isn’t Reporting
The media frenzy surrounding the recent tragedies on K2 climaxed on Wednesday with a front page article in the New York Times. Though disjointed, the article did sketch out the rough facts that by now have been widely reported in the mainstream news. Roughly thirty people left the high camp in the predawn hours on [...]
Avalanche Triggers Survival Situation on K2
This morning, news reports began to filter from expedition websites into the mainstream media about a tragic situation high on K2, the world’s second highest mountain. Because of the unreliable nature of these second and third hand reports, it must be stressed that the following account is unconfirmed, and the story will undoubtedly change as [...]
