K2 climber accused of stepping over a dying man to earn world record defends herself

Record-breaking mountaineer Kristin Harila is denying accusations that she and her team climbed past a dying man without trying to help as they raced up to the summit of K2.

This comes after a video recorded by climbing duo Wilhelm Steindl and Philip Flämig went viral showing climbers that same day, reportedly after Harila's team had passed, stepping over 27-year-old Mohammed Hassan, a porter who had fallen from above and was lying across the trail, badly injured at the time (see video below, posted by The Telegraph). — Read the rest