{"id":83072,"date":"2025-08-13T21:08:04","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T16:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=83072"},"modified":"2025-08-13T21:08:04","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T16:08:04","slug":"chinese-climber-died-after-hitting-rocks-at-k2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/chinese-climber-died-after-hitting-rocks-at-k2\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese climber died after hitting rocks at K2 mountain"},"content":{"rendered":"

GILGIT BALTISTAN: Chinese <\/span>female<\/span> mountaineer<\/span> Guan Jing<\/span> passed<\/span> away <\/span>on Tuesday <\/span>evening<\/span> when<\/span> she<\/span> was<\/span> hit <\/span>by <\/span>rolling<\/span> rocks while <\/span>coming<\/span> down <\/span>from the summit of K2, the <\/span>second-highest <\/span>mountain in the world<\/span>, the Alpine Club of Pakistan<\/a> (ACP) confirmed on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

This <\/span>is<\/span> the third <\/span>fatal<\/span> event<\/span> on Pakistani <\/span>summits<\/span> this season. On July 19, 2025, a <\/span>Pakistani<\/span> climber, Muhammad Iftikhar Hussain, <\/span>died<\/span> after an avalanche <\/span>hit<\/span> during <\/span>a<\/span> K2 <\/span>expedition <\/span>in Gilgit-Baltistan.<\/p>\n

<\/span>Previously,<\/span> on June 4, <\/span>celebrated<\/span> Czech mountaineer Kl\u00e1ra Kolouchov\u00e1 <\/span>passed<\/span> away <\/span>during her expedition on Nanga Parbat (8,125m), <\/span>commonly<\/span> referred<\/span> to <\/span>as the <\/span>“<\/span>Killer Mountain<\/span>.”<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>The incident <\/span>happened<\/span> on the Abruzzi Spur <\/span>trail<\/span> between Camp I and Advanced Base Camp \u2014 a <\/span>stretch<\/span> that<\/span> is known <\/span>for <\/span>regular<\/span> rockfalls. Guan had <\/span>climbed<\/span> to <\/span>the <\/span>top<\/span> on Monday with a <\/span>team<\/span> of climbers before <\/span>she<\/span> started<\/span> to<\/span> descend,” <\/span>ACP Vice President Karrar Haidri said in a statement.<\/p>\n

He <\/span>mentioned<\/span> that recovery <\/span>operations<\/span> for her <\/span>remains<\/span> are <\/span>in process<\/span>, while other climbers who <\/span>climbed<\/span> to<\/span> the summit of <\/span>K2 <\/span>on<\/span> the same <\/span>day are now <\/span>in<\/span> the safe process of <\/span>returning to base camp.<\/span><\/p>\n

Altogether<\/span>, over 27<\/span>\u00a0climbers <\/span>scaled<\/span> the <\/span>summit<\/span> of K2 on Monday. She <\/span>formed<\/span> part of the 15-<\/span>citizen<\/span> team from Imagine Nepal that <\/span>climbed<\/span> to <\/span>the <\/span>summit<\/span> of the peak at 3:32 PM Pakistan time on August 11, 2025.<\/p>\n

This was the third <\/span>fatal<\/span> accident<\/span> in Gilgit-Baltistan <\/span>this<\/span> climbing season. On <\/span>28th <\/span>July<\/span>, <\/span>retired<\/span> German Olympic biathlon champion Laura Dahlmeier <\/span>died<\/span> on Lailla Peak (6,096m) in <\/span>Hushe Valley of Ghanche district <\/span>when<\/span> she<\/span> was<\/span> hit <\/span>by rockfall at 5,700 meters.<\/p>\n

<\/span>Two<\/span> other<\/span> deadly<\/span> incidents<\/span> took<\/span> place<\/span> earlier<\/span> this<\/span> July <\/span>\u2013 on July 18, Pakistani <\/span>mountaineer<\/span> Muhammad Iftikhar Hussain <\/span>of<\/span> Skardu died when<\/span>\u00a0an avalanche <\/span>hit<\/span> Camp 1 on K2, <\/span>some<\/span> 500 meters above <\/span>the <\/span>base camp.<\/p>\n

The avalanche <\/span>swept<\/span> up <\/span>four climbers, <\/span>two <\/span>of whom were <\/span>Nepalese Sherpas, with one foreign climber <\/span>getting<\/span> minor injuries while two others <\/span>were<\/span> rescued<\/span>. <\/span><\/p>\n

Two weeks <\/span>ago,<\/span> on July 4, <\/span>famous<\/span> Czech mountaineer Kl\u00e1ra Kolouchov\u00e1, 46, <\/span>tumbled<\/span> to her death between Camp I and Camp II <\/span>while<\/span> on <\/span>her <\/span>climb<\/span> on Nanga Parbat (8,125m), <\/span>which<\/span> is<\/span> the <\/span>notorious “<\/span>Killer Mountain<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

GILGIT BALTISTAN: Chinese female mountaineer Guan Jing passed away on Tuesday evening when she was hit by rolling rocks while coming down from the summit of K2, the second-highest mountain in the world, the Alpine Club of Pakistan (ACP) confirmed on Wednesday. This is the third fatal event on Pakistani summits this season. On July […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":83073,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[8762,30690,30691],"class_list":["post-83072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan","category-world","tag-alpine-club-of-pakistan","tag-chinese-woman-climber-dead","tag-k2-mountain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83074,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83072\/revisions\/83074"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}