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Area man braving danger to climb world's harshest mountain

Published 06/18/07

A Hillsmere resident has established base camp on the world's harshest and second-tallest mountain, K2. He said he expects to reach the 28,251-foot summit sometime between July 7 and the end of the month.

Courtesy photo - Chris Warner Chris Warner high on Broad Peak with K2 in the background from his 2005
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Chris Warner said in an interview this morning using a satellite phone from the Pakistani mountainside that he is hunkered down in base camp, riding out 90 mph winds and enduring temperatures of minus 10 degrees.

The climbers' ropes whistle and scream in the wind, Mr. Warner said.

"It has to be a 100 percent effort," he said. "If you are not with the 'A' team and you are not putting in 100 percent, you will fail; and the...

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