What happened to Alison Hargreaves on K2? - Mark Horrell
Mar 6, 2019 · Somewhere on the slope beneath Camp 4, thousands of metres below the summit of K2, they came upon a boot which they knew belonged to Alison Hargreaves. They looked across and saw a body clad in her distinctive green clothing, lying in an inaccessible location 300 metres away. They were exhausted, and knew there was no way they could retrieve it.
Alison Hargreaves - Wikipedia
In 1995, Hargreaves intended to climb the three highest mountains in the world—Mount Everest, K2, and Kangchenjunga—unaided. On 13 May 1995, she became the first woman to reach summit of Everest without the aid of Sherpas or bottled oxygen; [3] on 13 August, she died while descending from the summit of K2. [2] [4] [5]
1995 K2 disaster - Wikipedia
By August 13, 1995, the remnants of the U.S. team and Alison Hargreaves had joined forces with a New Zealand and Canadian team at Camp 4, around 7,600 metres (24,900 ft) above sea level, and at least 12 hours from the summit.
K2: the final hours - The Independent
Aug 19, 1995 · THE FIRST harrowing details of Alison Hargreaves's last hours on K2 emerged yesterday when two frost-bitten, exhausted, and distressed Spaniards were rescued from the mountain.
Climbing: The Last Ascent of Alison Hargreaves - Outside Online
May 2, 2004 · On what seemed to be a perfect August day in the Karakoram range of Pakistan, Alison Hargreaves gazed up at the summit of K2 and must have felt, for a brief moment, a rush of unadulterated...
A Traveler's Tale of Ambition--or Desperation--Gone Tragically Awry ...
May 14, 2000 · When 33-year-old Alison Hargreaves and six male companions died in August 1995 descending 28,250-foot K2 in Pakistan, I was hiking in the English Lake District, where none of the peaks is...
Hargreaves, Alison (1962–1995) - Encyclopedia.com
On August 13, 1995, Alison Hargreaves disappeared with five other climbers while scaling Pakistan's K2, situated in the Karakoram range bordering Pakistan and China. At 28,251 feet, K2 is the world's second highest summit and one of the most dangerous, because it is subject to sudden harsh storms and high winds.
AAC Publications - Alison Jane Hargreaves, 1962-1995
After only a brief interlude in the U.K. with her family, where she was feted as a media personality, she was back in the mountains bound for K2. This peak in the Karakoram Range of northern Pakistan has a savage reputation.
UKC Articles - Herstory - UKClimbing
Aug 13, 1995 · Two months later, she died in a storm on K2 and the press turned on her: how could a mother of two young children take such risks? Her death highlighted the double standards applied to male and female climbers. Born in Derbyshire in 1962, Alison came from a middle-class family who encouraged her mountain interests.
Remembering the 21st Anniversary of Belper Mountaineer Alison Hargreaves
Aug 11, 2016 · On 13 August 1995 Alison Hargreaves climbed to the summit of K2 (in Pakistan), the second highest mountain in the world. Tragically, on 14 August 1995, she died, along with 6 other mountaineers, during a storm with hurricane-force winds whilst descending the mountain. Another mountaineer also died in the same storm.
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