After footage of the incident emerged, Norway’s Kristin Harila and her team who passed by Hassan are now facing claims they were more interested in securing a new world record than helping the stricken climber. She is also accused of holding a party shortly after clinching the record that saw her climb 14 of the world’s highest peaks in just over three months despite Hassan’s death.
The fellow mountaineers, reigniting fury about how Sherpas are treated as ‘second-class human beings’, said a Western climber would not have been left to die in the same instance.
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