Respostas
Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner
the summer of 2010, mountain climber Gerlinde
Kaltenbrunner was almost at the top of a mountain called
K2 in Pakistan. She was trying to climb the 8,611-meter
mountain after trying and failing four other times. This
time she was climbing with her friend Fredrik Ericsson
It was about seven o'clock in the morning, and it was
snowing a little. The two climbers were getting ready to go
up the last 400 meters. Fredrik was trying to tie some rope,
but he slipped and fell past Gerlinde. He fell a thousand
meters and was killed.
Gerlinde went back to basecamp. K2 was now a very sad
place for her, and she thought perhaps she would never
climb the mountain.
But there was something very important that she wanted
to do. K2 is one of 14 mountains in the world that are 8,000
meters or higher, and her dream was to climb them all.
So in August 2011 she went back to Pakistan and K2
and tried again. This time she got to the top. Her dream
was complete.