S'porean climbers abandon K2 climb

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Dr Robert Goh and Mr Edwin Siew, Wish you well. Hope you are climbing K2 on your own funds. If you are funded by the public, please do not waste public funds like that. There are better things to do with the money.

Chinks are not made for mountain climbing. Leave the mountains alone.

http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/Latest+News/Singapore/STIStory_265437.html?vgnmr=1


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Mountaineers Dr Robert Goh and Mr Edwin Siew have abandoned their bid to scale K2, the world's second highest peak. -- FILE PHOTO: ZAOBAO

</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><!-- story content : start -->SINGAPORE mountaineers Dr Robert Goh and Mr Edwin Siew have abandoned their bid to scale K2, the world's second highest peak.
Their decision came a week after a large chunk of ice fell off the face of the mountain, killing 11 climbers.
Three others survived and were badly frost bitten. They were airlifted by helicopter from base camp over the last three days.
Dr Goh, 42, said the decision was taken with great reluctance and heavy hearts.
'The mountain is so near, yet so far. The tents and equipment are all up there ready for us. But with 11 climbers killed when the weather was perfect, it was just too shocking for words,' he said.
About three-quarters of the mountaineers at the base camp have left for home.
<!-- show media links starting at 7th para -->Only two other teams remain at base camp ? two Rumanian climbers with two Sherpas and two Pakistani high-altitude porters; and three Americans who came without Sherpas or porters.
This makes manpower at base camp 'very thin'.
In a statement to the media, Ms Lulin Reutens, the expedition spokesman, said: 'If there should be an accident, there would not be enough people to mount a rescue.'
Since Saturday's tragedy, the duo had been helping in the evacuation of the three injured climbers.
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[silverspoon]

i will never understand why pple so free can go climbing all over the world without working for money........

 

[Wang Ye]

i will never understand why pple so free can go climbing all over the world without working for money........

Because there are enough fools around willing to sponsor them. One reason why they failed is because no cost to them.

 

[gravure]

I thought K2 was nicknamed the widow maker -- supposedly it is the hardest mountain to climb in the world.

 

[angry_one]

Pussies. Call themselves adventurers and wanna back out when some others died? That's what adventure is call about, surely? Something that has RISKS??

 

[singveld]

Pussies. Call themselves adventurers and wanna back out when some others died? That's what adventure is call about, surely? Something that has RISKS??

hur, i think the 7 deaths still hanging on a rope, between base camp and summit. no one want to climb pass them without zapping their strength. i think among them are 3 south koreans. the rest of korean team are first to quit. singapore team quit later.

that is 200k sgd gone for each person.

i hope someone can bring the bodies back, if not it will be there for hundreds of years.