Chinese mountaineer dies during K2 descent


A TEAM of mountaineers set off on foot to recover the body of a Chinese climber from the world’s second-highest peak after bad weather grounded helicopter flights, a Pakistani official said.

Guan Jing was struck by falling rocks on Tuesday while descending K2, a day after reaching its summit with a group in Pakistan’s Gilgit-Baltistan region.

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