A dangerous sport

The Herald reports:

The world’s most perilous peak will be the final resting place for a New Zealand father and son who were attempting to scale it.

The point Marty and Denali Schmidt reached on K2’s Pakistan side is too treacherous for a recovery, so the climbers will remain there, buried beneath the snow.

Marty, 53, and Denali, 25, had hoped to be the first father and son team to reach the peak, but they were killed in an avalanche at the weekend. They were about to make the final push for the summit.

Very sad for family and friends. My thoughts are with them.

Mountain climbing is obviously a dangerous sport. The danger is part of the challenge.

Maybe mountain deaths are just higher profile, but it does seem to have a fairly high mortality rate. I wonder if there is any data on which sports have the highest mortality rates? Considering how few extreme mountain climbers there are, a fair few end up dead.