The discovery of the bodies on K2 of John Snorri, Ali Sadpara and Juan Pablo Mohr , who never returned from their Summit attempt this winter, clarified the causes of their deaths. But he did not answer another question, which perhaps appears useless given the tragedy, but which can help family members and the community in the search for a sense of the supreme sacrifice of these three mountaineers who lost their lives to chase their dream.

Did John Snorri, Ali Sadpara and Juan Pablo Mohr reach the Summit of K2 before they died?

Given the location of Snorri and Sadpara’s bodies and the equipment found, it was determined that they were certainly downhill. But this does not prove that they had reached the top, it may be that they had given up earlier.

To give hope about the possibility of having an answer was Elia Saikaly, who returned to Base Camp and announced that Snorri’s GPS, GoPro, satellite and smartphone had been found.

Mohr’s camera was not found.

These days Sajid Sadpara, son of Ali, started to look inside, but sadly the files are damaged and it was possible to recover only a single last frame of a corrupt video of Snorri during the ascent to the Summit.

Moreover, with the date of 7 February 2019, a date certainly wrong since the little that is seen is a rope, which is certainly one of those positioned by the Nepalese during their Summit attempt.

• Juan Pablo Mohr, Ali Sadpara and John Snorri went missing during a summit attempt on Feb. 5

This is also confirmed by Nirmal Purja, who offered to lend a hand in understanding what altitude they were at.

“ Our work continues from here. We do not come to a hasty conclusion and continue to put together the means and look for evidence of a successful winter ascent “writes Elia Saikaly, who to those who ask him if they plan to have the devices found examined by digital forensic experts replies:” [Experts] [they] will certainly be consulted, as well as forensic specialists. There are too many strange details in the totality of the situation […], especially for the film which we hope will be as conclusive as possible ”.

Source: Angela Benavides – EXPLORERSWEB and Francesca Cortinovis – MONTAGNA.TV

• Translated

The last frame of video from John Snorri’s GoPro 360, shot during their Summit push during winter on K2.

It was an incredibly dangerous search just beneath 8300m. John Snorri was the highest of the three climbers, attached to the winter K2 safety lines installed by the Nepalese Sherpas. John, Ali and JP were all on the descent. Ali Sadpara was a few rope lengths below and Juan Pablo a significant distance away near camp 4.

PK sat above me at the anchor monitoring the situation from a safety standpoint. I rely on him as my eyes are generally glued to my electronic viewfinder. I hung off my ascender entrusting my life into the fresh line from summer with my crampons firmly biting into the ice. I filmed the scene as Sajid searched John Snorri for 4 items: a Garmin, a satellite phone, a Samsung mobile and a 360 GoPro.

The slope was between 75 and 80 degrees. One wrong move and that would be it. Sajid spent over 15 minutes reaching in to John’s jacket, pockets and boots hoping to find the crucial items. At one point, he pulled his knife out and began cutting John’s clothing. You can’t imagine how difficult it is to move/search a person once they’ve passed on an 8000m peak. I documented feathers flying as he triumphantly pulled out the most important item: the GoPro. What would it reveal?

This is the only piece of visual information that we have at the moment. A single frame of video which is corrupt that will need further analysis. The date is incorrect, logged as February 7th, 2019.

What do you see? The color of the rope is quite an important detail. The heroic Nepali Sherpas who summited K2 in winter would recognize this rope as they installed it. But where is this? How close to the Summit? Can the GoPro 360 reveal the Geo position of the climbers? What else can be learned from this image? Strangely it does not play on any of the devices we have including the GoPro 360 app.

Our work continues here. We jump to no conclusions as we continue to put the pieces together and search for evidence of a successful winter ascent.

Source: Elia Saikaly – FB

At least this proved all the conspiracy theories against Nepali Sherpa’s were wrong.

Sajid Sadpara left them at 10am at 8200m. They couldn’t reach the Summit at 8611m before 3 pm and then to return back at 8300 in a winter evening with sunset at 5pm. Is humanly not possible, as this picture seems to be taken of a good day light.

This shoe print on ice shows that He has completed his footstep by forcing on right foot as action force because the rotating footprint is describing that it took as time as it make this footprint to complete the footstep.

This footstep is also showing that he is descending because left foot is down and if he ascends then after completing footstep the left foot should be upward as reaction force.

This clearly shows that he took his left foot down as reaction due to the action of right foot.

Hence, He is descending because action and reaction are equal but opposite in direction.