Islamabad, 28 July 2022 (TDI): Family members of late Icelandic mountaineer John Snorri Sigurjonsson called on President of Pakistan Arif Alvi.
The meeting took place at Aiwan-e-Sadr, President House, Islamabad. The president expressed his condolence on the death of a late mountaineer. John Snorri died while attempting a K2 summit push in February 2021.
Pakistani and Chilean mountain climbers Ali Sadpara and Juan Pablo Mohr also died in that incident.
صدر مملکت ڈاکٹر عارف علوی سے آنجہانی کوہ پیما جان سنوری کے اہل خانہ کی ملاقات۔ pic.twitter.com/1g9SXFlBqw
— The President of Pakistan (@PresOfPakistan) July 27, 2022
The family members included his widow Lina Moey, and his daughter and sisters. The Canadian filmmaker and adventurer Elia Saikaly was also present at the meeting.
The President observed that late mountaineer John Snorri was a renowned mountaineer and passionate about sports. The late Icelandic also played a very active role in the promotion of mountaineering, he added.
John Snorri
John Snorri was an Icelandic high-altitude mountaineer. In May 2017, he became the first Icelander to summit Lhotse in the Himalayas. Lhotse is 8,516 meters high and the fourth highest mountain in the world.
On July 28 of the same year, he became the first Icelander to summit K2. K2 is the second highest mountain on Earth, located in northern Pakistan.
Moreover, on 4 August 2017, he successfully summited Broad Peak. The peak is the twelfth highest mountain in the world, located between the border of Pakistan and China.
On 5 February 2021, John Snorri, Ali Sadpara, and Juan Pablo Mohr went missing while attempting a K2 summit.
Pakistan authorities officially presumed the three men dead but stated that the search for their remains would continue. While the dead bodies of three mountaineers were recovered after a few months.
K2-The savage mountain
K2, known as ‘the savage mountain,’ has harsh conditions. Winds can blow at more than 200 kilometers per hour (124 miles per hour). While temperatures can drop to minus 60 degrees Celsius (minus 76 Fahrenheit).
Unlike the world’s highest peak Mount Everest, which thousands of climbers, young and old, have scaled, K2 is much less traveled
