IN DEPTH conversation with world record holder Kristen Harila about the final climb - K2 in Pakistan - thus completing the ascent of all 14 8000 meter peaks in 92 days.

CHAPTER MARKERS:

00:00 - Kristin Harila and Lama Sherpa complete all 14 8000 meter peaks in 92 days
00:43 - Muhammed Hassan tragedy
1:19 - Thom reflects on his own experience encountering people who are dying
3:19 - our sponsor Musa Masala
4:49 - Kristin Harila on safety, not worried about reaching the summit
6:27 - concerns of rockfall
7:26 - cameraman turns around at Camp 3 & strength of Sherpa team
9:01 - encountering Muhammed Hassan in the Bottleneck
12:37 - avalanche above, team decides to split up
13:27 - difficulty of reaching summit and news of Hassan
15:02 - seeing Hassan on descent
18:54 - describes Hassan hanging on the trail & difficulty of a rescue
20:48 - Thom’s personal thoughts


On July 27th, over 150 people were moving up from Camp 3 for a summit push on K2, the Savage Mountain. It was now or never for a once in a lifetime chance to summit At 215am at 8200 meters, an inexperienced member of the rope fixing team, 27 year old Pakistani porter Muhammed Hassan, married and father of three, with no high altitude experience or proper equipment, took a 5 meter fall, landing upside down below the fixed lines.

Tenjen Lama Sherpa and Kristin Harila stopped immediately to render aid to Hassan, as more than 100 climbers approached below them. Here is Kristin's story about what happened next.

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