Australia’s mountaineering community is mourning Matthew Eakin, who died while attempting to scale K2, the world’s second-highest peak.
The Sydneysider, who was in his early 40s, and Canadian Richard Cartier went missing last week on the mountain’s Camp 1 (6000 metres) and Camp 2 (6700 metres) in separate incidents.
“Bodies of the climbers have been traced at a height of around 6500 metres,” a spokesman for Alpine Club Pakistan told the DPA news agency on Wednesday.
A Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade official says Eakin died on Thursday, and officials are providing consular assistance and condolences to his family and friends.
Eakin was an avid mountaineer who, according to his Linkedin account, attended school at St Joseph’s College Hunters Hill before completing a law and commerce degree at the University of Canberra….