Climbing

Team Canada’s Victor Baudrand, left to right, Sean McColl and Oscar Baudrand inspect the lead climb course during boulder and lead competition in Sport Climbing at the Pan American Games in Santiago, Chile on Monday Oct. 23, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Frank Gunn

B.C.’s McColl leads climb as Canadian sport climbing reaches new heights

Sean McColl’s pursuit of another Olympic Games in sport climbing includes bringing…

Oct 24, 2023
by The Canadian Press
Sports

The mother of Mohammed Hassan, a Pakistani porter who died on July 27 during a summit of K2, weeps while she holds a portrait of him at their home in Tasar, a village in the Shigar district in the Gilgit-Baltistan region of northern Pakistan, Saturday, Aug. 12, 2023. An investigation has been launched into the death of a Hassan near the peak of the world’s most treacherous mountain, a Pakistani mountaineer said Saturday, following allegations that dozens of climbers eager to reach the summit had walked past the man after he was gravely injured in a fall. (AP Photo/M.H. Balti)

Climber: impossible to carry injured Pakistani porter down snowy K2

Some say life could have been saved if climb was aborted and focus turned to getting him down safely