Death of the K2

Today on 11-30 am Vitaly Gorelik died in BC. Condolences to Vitaly's family and friends from the whole our team ...
The weather's extremely bad for the fourth day: snowstorm, cloudness, the strong wind. The ordered heli couldn't fly to BC because of the weather conditions. Now we wait the heli for the transportation Vitaly's body.
The expedition is over. All members in the base camp prepare the expedition gear for the transportation down. 

The expedition doctor Serguey Bychkovsky
The coach Nickolay Cherny
The expedition head Victor Kozlov
(source : http://k2-winterclimb.ru/eng/ )

Dodał marek karnecki dnia 06.02.2012

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