A Norwegian climber who recently became the fastest person to summit the world's 14 highest peaks has addressed controversy after critics accused her of walking past a dying sherpa to set her record.
A Norwegian climber who recently became the fastest person to summit the world's 14 highest peaks has addressed controversy after critics accused her of walking past a dying sherpa to set her record.Thursday, Kristin Harila, 37, said she and her team"did everything we could for him at the time."became the fastest people to summit all 14 of the world's 8,000-metre mountains on July 27 after reaching the top of K2 in Pakistan's Himalayas.
Norwegian climber Kristin Harila and Tenjen Sherpa, set the record for the fastest summit of all 14 of the world's 8,000-meter peaks, along with the youngest K2 summiteer, Nima Rinji Sherpa, arrival at the Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu on August 5, 2023.
She then continued her ascent following a distress call from the fixing team ahead, leaving others behind with Hassan. "Considering the amount of people that stayed behind and had turned around, I believed Hassan would be getting all the help he could, and that he would be able to get down."When he caught up with Harila,"we understood that he might not make it down."Her team of four"was in no shape to carry his body down" safely, she wrote, noting it would have required at least six people.
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