A fact from 1939 American Karakoram expedition to K2 appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 3 December 2018 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that on the 1939 American K2 expedition, Dudley Wolfe and three Sherpas died high on the mountain (K2 pictured) after the Sherpas had climbed from base camp to rescue Wolfe but he would not come down?
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In writing this I have tried to use American English (spelling, putting dates in a jumbled order and so on) but I'm very aware that it reads as if it was written by a British person with rather formal, even old-fashioned, English. I'd like to change that aspect but I really can't. If anyone could help I'd welcome it. Thincat (talk) 12:20, 28 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
The lead is being altered to say "the wealthy Dudley Wolfe, was left stranded alone for over two weeks at two separate high-altitude camps after the descent of everyone else to base camp." I am not going to repeat my correction to this while the article is on the front page so I shall comment here. July 22, 1939 Wolfe was left at Camp VII; by July 24 everyone else had reached Base Camp; July 29 Sherpas reach Wolfe who had all this time been at Camp VII. Thincat (talk) 19:52, 3 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
