About Julie Tullis
Julie Tullis was a British climber and filmmaker who died while descending from K2's summit during a storm, along with four other climbers from several expeditions, in what was later termed the 1986 K2 disaster or the "Black Summer" of 1986. Although Tullis and Diemberger finally made the summit of K2 on 4 August 1986, making Tullis the first British woman to do so, they were exhausted from spending several days above 8,000 metres; 26,000' (known as the death zone). In 2005, an audio cassette tape diary recorded by Tullis in 1982 was recovered from the glacier below K2.
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