“Finally the dead body of Sarah Mallory Geis the missing US climber has been found on the slopes of Broad Peak by local volunteer rescuers,” the Alpine Club of Pakistan announced today via Instagram. “The body is being brought to base camp for onward despatch to her family.” This means that the second-to-last of the…
One of the three avalanche victims from Broad Peak who had previously been officially listed as missing has been found and recovered. The Alpine Club of Pakistan (ACP) confirmed that the three Pakistanis Muhammad Nadeem, Muhammad Bashir, and Abuzar Ali had discovered and recovered the body of Pakistani mountaineer Sohail Sakhi at an elevation of…
The bodies of four climbers who died in the avalanche accident on Broad Peak six days ago have been brought to base camp and can now be returned to their families. The Alpine Club of Pakistan (ACP) announced this today in what it called a “closing statement.” The bodies are those of Nirmal Purja, Wang…
This is no longer a rescue operation, but a recovery mission. The nine male climbers and one female climber who were struck by a massive avalanche on Thursday during an attempt to summit the eight-thousander Broad Peak are no longer alive. As sad as it is, there is no longer any reasonable doubt about this….
It is now a sad reality. Nirmal Purja, one of the world’s most famous mountaineers, has also lost his life in the avalanche accident on Broad Peak in Pakistan. “Today, it is with profound sadness and immense heartbreak that we confirm that Nirmal “Nimsdai” Purja, tragically lost his life following the avalanche on Broad Peak,”…
As is always the case after mountain disasters, at some point all that remains is the hope for a miracle. This is also true following the massive avalanche that swept down yesterday – as reported – on the eight-thousander Broad Peak in Pakistan, striking a ten-member international team that was on a summit attempt an…
“The Alpine Club of Pakistan (ACP) has received deeply concerning reports of an avalanche that struck a team of climbers on Broad Peak (8,047m) in the Karakoram mountain range around midday today,” the Pakistani mountaineering association announced on Instagram. According to the ACP, ten members of an international team attempting to summit the world’s twelfth-highest…
The Sherpas are the backbone of commercial eight-thousander mountaineering. Without the support of experienced climbing Sherpas, hardly any client would reach the summit of any of the 14 eight-thousanders. When one of these loyal helpers from Nepal completes his collection of eight-thousanders, it usually happens en passant -simply by doing his job. In the future,…
Jaroslav Bansky, one of the Czech Republic’s top mountaineers, died last Thursday (16 July) in an accident on the six-thousander Biarchedi II in the Karakoram in Pakistan. Even seven days later, the exact circumstances remain unclear. Pakistani media reports stated that the 46-year-old had fallen. Other reports suggested that Bansky had apparently been struck by…
The summer climbing season in the Karakoram has only just begun, and already there has been the first fatality. According to Pakistani media reports, French ski mountaineer Guillaume Pierrel died in an avalanche on the 7,282-meter-high K6. Pierrel’s team was struck by the avalanche at an altitude of about 5,000 meters, Ishaq Ali, head of…
He was part of the up-and-coming young generation of Pakistani mountaineers. “In the high mountains, making the right decision is crucial, but even more important is believing in yourself,” wrote Shah Doulat in summer 2024, after he had successfully led an expedition to an eight-thousander for the first time as the main person in charge…
This is another important step on the long-overdue path to emancipation for Pakistani mountaineers. Last weekend, in a hotel in the city of Skardu in northern Pakistan, they launched the Karakoram Mountain Guides Association (KMGA), which they proudly announced afterwards as “the first national body created by mountaineers, for mountaineers.” The more than 100 participants…
The members of the “Young Alpinist Group” from Great Britain and Ireland are actually only supposed to gain initial experience in the world’s great mountains. However, two of them have now achieved a real mountaineering coup in northern Pakistan. At the end of October, Briton James Price and Irishman George Ponsonby opened a difficult 3,000-meter…
“We would have liked to bring Laura home. But it wasn’t possible to get her,” Andreas Dahlmeier, father of former world-class biathlete and mountaineer Laura Dahlmeier, who died in an accident on the six-thousander Laila Peak in Pakistan at the end of July, told the German magazine “Der Spiegel”. “It was too dangerous after the…
“(I am) Grateful that I’m alive and ok,” Turkish mountaineer Gülnur Tumbat wrote on Instagram today. The professor of marketing, born in 1975, lives and works in San Francisco. On Monday, she reached – with bottled oxygen – the summit of K2, the second-highest mountain on earth, as one of around 40 mountaineers from commercial…
