An avalanche struck near Broad Peak on Thursday evening, leaving climbers unaccounted for as authorities and local media report conflicting details regarding bodies found and ongoing search operations. <\/p>\n
An avalanche struck on Thursday evening, and there has been no contact with the climbers since. Nepalese media report preliminary information regarding the recovery of the first bodies.<\/p>\n
The Alpine Club of Pakistan announced via social media that four bodies had been recovered and reportedly identified two of the victims as Nadhira Al Harthy and Pur Bahadur Gurung. However, these claims have not yet been confirmed by the governments of Nepal and Pakistan, which are jointly conducting search and rescue operations. The Nepalese Ministry of Tourism refers to the group of climbers as “missing.”<\/p>\n
Citing local authorities, the BBC reported that the locators of three climbers were tracked at altitudes between 6,000 and 7,000 meters above sea level. Pakistani mountaineer Naila Kiani stated that GPS data indicated movements from two of the missing individuals.<\/p>\n
The expedition was led by Nirmal Purja, a 43-year-old mountaineer who scaled all 14 peaks above 8,000 meters within six months in 2019. His record was broken in 2023 by Kristin Harila and Tenjen Sherpa, who conquered all the mountains in 92 days.<\/p>\n
Sandra is 18, Anastasija 14, and Ola 16, and all three suffer from Pompe disease. Thanks to therapy, they have survived significantly longer than medicine allowed a decade ago, but a committee has now excluded them from the treatment program. In conversations with parents, a word that doctors intensely dislike frequently arises: euthanasia, writes Anna Gorczyca.<\/p>\n
Broad Peak is the third-highest mountain in the Karakoram range. As the BBC notes, the mountain has been successfully scaled by approximately 400 climbers, while over 20 people have died attempting it. In 2013, Polish mountaineers Maciej Berbeka and Tomasz Kowalski went missing on Broad Peak while descending from the summit, and Berbeka’s body was never found.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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