Mountain Madness

Poor equipment and a porter's mistake were to blame for the tragedy on K2 according to survivor Marco Confortola:

Confortola said poor equipment — including ropes and spikes that broke — as well as sloppiness and inexperience were partly to blame for the disaster. A Dutch survivor, Wilco Van Rooijen, has said advance climbers laid ropes in some of the wrong places, including in a treacherous gully known as "The Bottleneck," about 1,150 feet below the summit, where the avalanche later took place.


It goes beyond saying nobody should have been up there in the first place, but that's pretty obvious.
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