GILGIT: Sajid Ali Sadpara, the son of legendary mountaineer late Mohammad Ali Sadpara, has asserted that they have found the bodies of his father and his colleagues, but it is not possible for them to bring the bodies down right now.
“The bodies are at a very technical and dangerous slope of the mountain. It is difficult for my team to retrieve the bodies right now. All we can do is move them away from the climbing route and bury them,” he said in a video message on Twitter.
From the summit of K2 #K2Search #MissionSadpara pic.twitter.com/dKze4sCg5I
— Sajid Ali Sadpara (@sajid_sadpara) July 29, 2021
Sajid confirmed that they retrieved the bodies of Mohammad Ali Sadpara, John Snorri of Iceland and Juan Pablo Mohr of Chile at an altitude of around 8,400 metres on K2.
Sajid said he arrived there along with Canadian filmmaker Elia Saikaly and Nepal’s Pasang Kaji Sherpa on a search mission. He said that they were trying to shift the bodies near the route leading to the base camp.
On July 26, Gilgit Baltistan Information Minister Fateh Ullah Khan had confirmed that the bodies of Pakistani mountaineer Ali Sadpara, Iceland’s John Snorri and Chile’s Juan Pablo Mohr had been found.
Mohammad Ali Sadpara and two other climbers – Iceland’s John Snorri and Chile’s Juan Pablo Mohr – had gone missing on February 5 this year while trying to climb K2, the world’s second-highest peak at 8,611m (28,251 feet).
The trio had lost contact with Base Camp on Feb 5 while attempting an unprecedented winter ascent without supplemental oxygen. K2 had never been scaled in winter until a Nepalese team accomplished the feat less than a month before the Sadpara expedition.
“Sajid Sadpara has fulfilled his duty as son of #AliSadpara. He has secured the body of our hero at C-4. He single handedly not only retrieved the body from a dangerous slope but also managed to bring it from bottleneck to C-4,” an official Twitter account of Team Ali Sadpara said on Wednesday.
Sajid Sadpara has fulfilled his duty as son of #AliSadpara. He has secured the body of our hero at C-4. He single handedly not only retrieved the body from a dangerous slope but also managed to bring it from bottleneck to C-4. An Argentinian climber has only helped him #K2Search pic.twitter.com/HdlEOOzDc4
— Team Ali Sadpara (@ali_sadpara) July 28, 2021
