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Swidish Skier Ericsson dies in accident on K2
A proffessional mountaineer cum skier, Fredrik Ericsson, died yesterday, Friday, while trying to summit the K2 mountain in Pakistan.The CNN had special interview with one of his friend David Schipper through telephone.The incident occurred when Ericsson was attempting to become the first man to ski from the summit to base camp,at around 7:00am to 8:am,said Schipper, who also clarified that he learned of the accident on the world's second-tallest peak in a satellite call from another fellow climber Fabrizio Zangrilli.
Ericsson, who was around 35 yrs of age , was at a place called the bottleneck, at an altitude of around 8,300 meters (27,231 feet), between Camp 4 (8,000 meters) and the summit (8,611 meters), said Schipper, a Moab, Utah-based climber. He described the bottleneck as a "steep and narrow section with thousands of meters of exposure below."
Ericsson, along with his climbing partners Trey Cook and Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner, had begun the summit push between 1 a.m. and 1:30 a.m. in low-visibility weather.
They approached the bottom of the bottleneck,after serveral hours of climbing,at this point, Cook returned to Camp 4, leaving Kaltenbrunner and Ericsson to continue
As Ericsson was attempting to fix ropes to the snow and ice along the route he "lost his purchase and was unable to arrest his fall," Schipper said.
Ericsson's body, resting at about 7,000 meters, will remain where it fell, Schipper said on Ericsson's website.
"His parents have requested it remain in the mountains he loved," he wrote. "Retrieval would be exceptionally dangerous"he was quoted as saying.