VIDEO: Amazing Footage from the Drone Used to Rescue Climber Rick Allen who Was Presumed Dead [arve url="https://youtu.be/DRucnyP4tR0"] CragBrains | July 23, 2018 74 Likes 2 Tweets 0 Comments
Drone Used at 27,560-Feet to Help Rescue Climber Presumed Dead on Broad Peak Near K2 Accomplished climber Rick Allen was reported missing, presumed dead, after summiting Broad Peak, the world’s 12th highest mountain, until a Japanese cook spotted a rucksack moving. A drone was then used at 27,560-feet (a world record?) to help locate and return him to base camp, mostly unhurt. Yesterday just as @fredrikstrang and I were about to leave after a night at camp […] Climbing CragBrains | July 16, 2018 0 Comments
Polish Ski Mountaineer Logs 1st Ever Ski Decent of 26,414′ Broad Peak | Other Skier Missing Polish ski mountaineer Andrezej Bargiel, 27, is the first person to ever ski off the summit of 26,414-foot Broad Peak in Pakistan. Andrezej summited Broad Peak on July 24th and began his ski decent at 3am. Unfortunately, another […] Industry News SnowBrains | July 28, 2015 1 Comment
3 Climbers Lost on 26,414-Foot Broad Peak 3 Iranian climbers, Aidin Bozorgi, Pouya Keivan and Mojtaba Jarahi, have been lost on 26,414-foot Broad Peak (Gasherbrum II, Earth’s 12 highest peak) since July 18th. They all successfully summited Broad Peak on July 16th and had planed to descend the standard route back to Camp 3 but the descent proved complicated and the climbers were forced to bivouac 2 nights above […] SnowBrains | July 25, 2013 12 Comments
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