Fellow climbers say video footage shows Kristin Harila’s team walking over body of frostbitten porter during record ascent

A record-breaking mountaineer has denied allegations that her team climbed over a dying sherpa to reach the summit of K2 in Pakistan to become the world’s fastest climber to scale all peaks above 8,000 metres.

Kristin Harila climbed the world’s second highest mountain on 27 July along with her Nepali sherpa Tenjen (Lama) Sherpa, 35, to complete her 14th highest peak in just over three months to secure a new world record.

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