The British-Nepali mountaineer was one of 10 climbers who were struck by an avalanche on Thursday on Broad Peak, one of the world’s highest mountains.
The bodies of three climbers have been identified amid ongoing search and rescue operations at Broad Peak mountain in Pakistan.
An avalanche on Pakistan's Broad Peak has left at least four climbers dead and six others missing from a 10-person international expedition, and bad weather is slowing the desperate search for survivors. Pakistani rescue teams located four bodies on the mountain Friday after an avalanche struck the expedition during a summit attempt on Broad Peak, […] The post Rescuers recover four bodies on Broad Peak as six climbers remain missing after avalanche appeared first on American Almanac .
An avalanche on Pakistan's Broad Peak has left at least four climbers dead and six others missing from a 10-person international expedition, and bad weather is slowing the desperate search for survivors. Pakistani rescue teams located four bodies on the mountain Friday after an avalanche struck the expedition during a summit attempt on Broad Peak, the world's 12th-highest peak at 8,047 meters in the Karakoram range. The expedition was led by Nirmal Purja, the renowned British-Nepali mountaineer known as "Nims Dai," who gained worldwide fame after climbing all 14 of the world's peaks above 8,000 meters in a record 189 days in 2019. That feat was chronicled in the Netflix documentary "14 Peaks: Nothing is Impossible." Three of the four…Open
The group caught on one of the world’s highest peaks included the influential British-Nepali mountaineer Nirmal Purja and an American climber, an alpine organization said.