The 1986 K2 Tragedy: The Black Summer where thirteen climbers perished

In August 1986, K2—the world's second-highest peak and its deadliest—claimed thirteen lives in a single catastrophic season that would become known as "The Black Summer." Among the victims were some of mountaineering's most accomplished climbers, including British filmmaker Julie Tullis, the first woman to summit K2's perilous slopes, and legendary Austrian climber Kurt Diemberger, one of only two people to survive the ordeal that trapped seven climbers at Camp IV during a week-long storm at 26,000 feet.
As multiple expeditions converged on the mountain in late July, summit fever and a narrow weather window created a deadly traffic jam on K2's notorious Bottleneck couloir. When the weather turned, climbers found themselves trapped above 8,000 meters—in the Death Zone—where the human body slowly dies from oxygen deprivation. Over seven nightmarish days, exhaustion, frostbite, avalanches, and high-altitude sickness took their toll. Rescue attempts failed. Tents collapsed under snow. Climbers who ventured out to help never returned. By the time the storm cleared, the mountain had claimed more lives in two weeks than in the previous five years combined.
This is the story of ambition, survival, and the razor-thin line between triumph and tragedy on the world's most dangerous mountain—where thirteen climbers entered the Death Zone, and only two came back alive.
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