K2: Climber Denis Urubko aborts 'suicidal' solo ascent

Mountain climber Denis Urubko has stopped a perilous offered to make the main solo winter rising of K2, the world's second-most noteworthy mountain, a representative for his Polish campaign says.

Mr Urubko settled on Sunday to set out alone after a column with the undertaking.

He is said to have needed to make the climb before the entry of better climate conditions in March.

In the midst of worry over his wellbeing, the undertaking representative said Mr Urubko was currently heading down the top to a base.

Michal Leksinski told the BBC that he anticipated that Mr Urubko would achieve base camp by Tuesday morning at the most recent.

The Russian-Polish mountain climber is probably going to have spent a night at 7,200m (23,600ft) and chose to turn back in the wake of encountering the extreme climate conditions, Mr Leksinski included.

He said different climbers on the mountain had seen Mr Urubko plunging and detailed it to base camp.

It is thought he needed to achieve the highest point of the mountain this month so his exertion would consider a winter climb.

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For what reason did they drop out?

Mr Urubko supposedly left for the summit without a radio, in the wake of declining to examine his designs.

"He was endeavoring to influence the group to push for the summit in February," a watchman with the gathering revealed to AFP news office.

"He has had a warmed civil argument with the group pioneer and left for the summit without saying a word."

How risky would a performance offer be?

Proficient mountain climbers communicated terrify at the climber's choice.

"A performance endeavor of K2 in winter is totally self-destructive," said Pakistani climber Mirza Ali Baig.

Alan Arnette, a US climber who made it to the summit of K2, told the BBC: "It's a colossal hazard. You need to cross a navigate underneath a 30-story ice serac, a hanging serac of a mass of ice that let free in 2008 and murdered 11 climbers that year."

Karim Shah, a mountaineering companion of Mr Urubko, concurred the move was "extremely unsafe".

"He is known as the 'Himalayan master' among the mountaineering group. In any case, his choice isn't right and does not suit somebody of his stature," he said.

How great is Denis Urubko?

He is said to be an exceptionally able mountain dweller who has vanquished the greater part of the world's 14 tops more than 8,000m.

Mr Urubko stood out as truly newsworthy simply a month ago by sparing a stricken French climber, Elisabeth Revol.

He and three other colleagues were flown by helicopter from K2 to the 8,126m Nanga Parbat in Pakistan - nicknamed Killer Mountain - where they played out a bold evening time safeguard.

K2 remains at 8,611m and is the main crest over 8,000m never moved in winter.

It has a higher casualty to-summit rate than Everest, and is known as the Savage Mountain because of its beastly conditions.

Torrential slides are an ever-introduce hazard, and in winter temperatures can tumble to - 50C (- 58F), joined by winds of up to 200km/h (124mph).

On 1 August 2008, 11 climbers from global endeavors were killed or just vanished on K2 - in what was one of the deadliest days in mountaineering history.