K2 2004: K2 South – Snow at K2 Base camp Southside:  Italian expedition Everest/K2 2004 expedition

K2 2004 - 50 years later

Snow at K2 Base camp Southside: The bad weather is not only at the north side camp, but also the camp on the south side of the mountain and those climbers who arrived in three squads, beginning on the 1st, 13th, and 21st of June.

K2-South: The bad weather that has touched K2-North is also at K2-South. 

A group of climbers departed heading up to camp 1 which seems particularly crowded in this period, with at least 15 tents currently on site from different expeditions. Due to some unusually warm weather, however, there have been several avalanches which have displaced some of the fixed previously set on the mountain. 

No worries for our climbers who safely reached base camp which is set up in a particularly safe zone, at some distance from the avalanche risk.  The danger is now only during actual climbing situations up and down the mountain.

We have finally placed the radio-computer tent, which is now autonomous thanks to a photoelectric set-up which has been installed.

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