All 10 Climbers Swept Away in Avalanche in Pakistan Are Confirmed Dead
Search teams are recovering bodies after an avalanche swept away a 10-member expedition led by Nirmal Purja, officials said.
- On Saturday, Pakistan-based expedition company Elite Expeditions confirmed that renowned British-Nepali climber Nirmal Purja and nine others died in an avalanche on Broad Peak.
- The team lost contact with their base camp Thursday after an avalanche struck the mountain; Karrar Haidri, vice president of the Alpine Club of Pakistan, provided the update Friday.
- Purja climbed the world's 14 highest peaks in 189 days, an achievement featured in the Netflix documentary "14 Peaks: Nothing Is Impossible," while this mission was the first 8,000-meter peak attempt for American climber Mallory Geis.
- Search teams backed by military helicopters resumed operations Saturday, as authorities transferred the remains of Omani climber Nathira Ahmed to Islamabad and Nepalese climber Bahadur Gurung to a hospital in Skardu.
- Accidents remain common on climbing expeditions in northern Pakistan because of avalanches, falling ice, and rapidly changing weather that endanger mountaineers in the Gilgit-Baltistan region.
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Rescuers recover climber Nirmal Purja's body after avalanche disaster
The avalanche struck on Thursday, cutting off contact with the international expedition led by Purja, a 43-year-old British-Nepali climber, on Broad Peak. "The ground rescue team has reached Nims Dai (Purja) at approximately 5,700m on Broad Peak -- a mountain he loved, and a mountain that has now taken him from us," the club posted on social media. The club's general secretary Ayaz Shigri said a ground rescue team was transporting four bodies --…
Mountaineer Nirmal Purja's body among five recovered in horror Broad Peak avalanche tragedy
The Alpine Club of Pakistan (ACP) stated that Nirmal Purja's body was found at an altitude of around 5,700 metres. Purja and his team were swept away by a horror avalanche on the Broad Peak.
Veteran mountaineer Purja’s body found three days after avalanche on Broad Peak in PoK
The ground rescue team has reached Nirmal Purja ‘Nims Dai’ at approximately 5,700m on Broad Peak, where three additional bodies have also been sighted, though their identities remain unconfirmed, said Alpine Club of Pakistan
The Pakistan Mountaineering Club said Sunday that rescuers have recovered the remains of renowned climber Nirmal Purja, who died along with nine other team members in a powerful avalanche in northern Pakistan this week.
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