Norwegian mountaineer details how team tried to save dying porter’s life after K2 fall

The Independent

A Norwegian mountaineer has described the desperate attempts to save an injured Pakistani porter as she refuted claims her group stepped over him as he lay dying.  Kristin Harila and her team have been criticised for allegedly climbing past fatally injured Muhammad Hassan during their world record K2 attempt.  Speaking on Sky News, Harila said: “We tried for hours to save him.”  “We were just behind him when he fell and he was number two in this queue of people and we saw him hanging upside down and very early we decided we needed to get him to try and turn around.”

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00:00 We were there when he fell in the dark.

00:03 It was many hours before this was filmed

00:06 and we tried for hours to save him.

00:09 We were just behind him when he fell

00:13 and he was number two in this queue of people.

00:17 And we saw him hanging upside down

00:21 and very early we decided we need to try

00:24 to get him turned around.

00:26 So we put up another ice anchor

00:29 and we took another rope and first Lama went into him

00:32 and tried to turn him around.

00:35 And he wasn't able to because this is a very,

00:38 very narrow and very steep place

00:41 and it's very dangerous to stay there.

00:44 So, and we wasn't able, so Lama came back to this trail

00:48 and continue up to where the other ice anchor were

00:51 and we put another rope down.

00:53 And Gabriel, our camera guy, he went again into Hassan

00:58 and then we were able to get him up to the trail.

01:03 And it's not like it's very easy

01:05 to get someone down from there.

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