WASHINGTON DC: Years before she died on the descent from K2, famed mountaineer Alison Hargreaves climbed the soaring, glacier-studded Eiger with her son Tom in her womb. But now, about 100 miles southwest from where his mother died, Ballard, 30, has been missing along with his Italian climbing partner Daniele Nardi on Pakistan’s Nanga Parbat — nicknamed “Killer Mountain” for its row of deaths and notoriously difficult terrain on the ninth-highest mountain in the world. Ballard was about 6 years old when his mother died, and he spent his early years untangling his motivations to scale the same mountains his famous mother once climbed. In a Jan. 19 Facebook photo by Ballard, a climber stopped for a rest on a snow-tipped mountainside. “Well, what did you expect?” Ballard wrote.

Source: Pakistan Today March 01, 2019 18:00 UTC