Warner Completes K2 Quest
July 2007Chris Warner at K2 base camp.
AAC member Chris Warner, along with Shared Summits teammates Don Bowie from California and Bruce Normand from Scotland, reached the summit of K2 on July 20, together with a dozen other climbers from six countries. It was a difficult summit day, with waist- and even shoulder-deep snow, followed by a harrowing descent in which the Shared Summits team rescued a Czech climber they found prone in the snow below the summit, Bowie injured his leg in a long fall and had to be carried part of the way down from advanced base camp, and Warner briefly was overcome by carbon dioxide or carbon monoxide poisoning at Camp 3.
Warner, the owner of the three Earth Treks gyms in Maryland and a mountaineering guide since the mid-1980s, had previously attempted K2 in 2002 and 2005. He has completed new routes on Shivling and Ama Dablam and climbed Everest, Shishapangma, and Cho Oyu. Read More...