Australian man among two climbers found dead on K2
Pajhwok Afghan News, Afghanistan’s largest independent news agency, reported that Afghan mountain climber Ali Akbar Sakhi also died on K2 last week, suffering a heart attack while descending the mountain.Dube-Fahmy had been providing updates on the group’s trek on his personal Facebook page, with the last post made on 21 July: “Richard, Matt and I were pretty tired. 16h of climbing. Then today we touched lower C4 . We are heading back to Base Camp tomorrow. It’s starting to get cold.
One of Eakin’s friends in Pakistan, Kashif Ali, posted on social media about waking up to the “sad news that my friend Matthew Eakin was … found dead on K2”. “We had not seen each other for years but I had been following his adventures online and he still messaged me regularly just to check in because that’s the kind of guy he was.