Friday, October 24, 2003

The Worst Tragedy in Mountaineering History: It wasn't Everest, May 1996. It was Peak Lenin, a 7,000 meter obscurity in the Pamirs in Tajikistan...on Friday the 13th (just had to be, didn't it?), 1990. Not 10, not 20, but a staggering 43 climbers died in a single instant, when a serac broke loose above Camp II and death slid down from above. ExplorersWeb has a first-hand account, told by Canadian climber Ian McLagan. Read it.


Murdering Lenin: "Well, shit....What do we do now?"
(Photo: Ian McLagan via ExplorersWeb)

Posted by Tim Zimmermann @ 8:25 AM

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