MONTREAL — Marie\u002DPier Desharnais reached the top of K2 — renowned as one of the toughest mountains on earth — becoming one of the only women in Canada to…
The climber from Victoriaville, Que. conquered what’s been dubbed “the King of Mountains” on July 22 at 5:45 a.m. after an ascent of nearly 11 hours from Camp 3.“It was a long expedition, but it was a monumental challenge,” the 35-year-old Quebecer said in French from Skardu, Pakistan.
A video shared by Nepalese mountaineer Mingma Sherpa on social media shows a traffic jam that Friday in “the Bottleneck,” a steep section of the ascent that rears up more than 8,200 metres above sea level. “What was the most difficult or what scared me the most was the descent,” she said. “There are falling rocks all the time because there are other climbers above you who are sending rocks down and you end up below them on a 60-degree slope, so it’s almost vertical.”
K2 is one of the deadliest peaks over 8,000 metres, with a fatality rate of 29 per cent, according to data compiled through 2012 by mountain specialist Eberhard Jurgalski. In contrast, Mount Everest has a four per cent fatality rate, his research found. Desharnais believes her life changed at that moment, when she began to consider climbing K2, which she’d previously deemed out of reach.
“A theme that is very present in my life is resilience: personal, organizational in my work, and obviously I use it in the mountains more than ever,” said Desharnais, who works as a disaster management expert in Qatar.Article content
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