K2 2019: Hobutse Camp - Avalanche Debris

We slept here on our way up and down the Baltoro this year. Three days before we arrived on our way out this avalanche narrowly missed the camp site. Our tents can be seen beyond the snow-cone. It happened at 6pm and three groups were camped here. Miraculously no one was killed, but the air-blast from this mas of snow landing from several thousand metres above flattened the camp and blew several tents and their occupants into the rocks beyond. Helicopter evacuations were required and a number of mules perished under the snow and rock.
Hobutse Camp - Avalanche Debris

We slept here on our way up and down the Baltoro this year. Three days before we arrived on our way out this avalanche narrowly missed the camp site. Our tents can be seen beyond the snow-cone. It happened at 6pm and three groups were camped here. Miraculously no one was killed, but the air-blast from this mas of snow landing from several thousand metres above flattened the camp and blew several tents and their occupants into the rocks beyond. Helicopter evacuations were required and a number of mules perished under the snow and rock.