A search team recovers the bodies of Nirmal Purja and three others from Broad Peak, Pakistan, after a deadly avalanche. The international expedition included climbers from Nepal, China, United States and Oman. The Alpine Club of Pakistan confirms no survivors from the 10-member team.
British-Nepali climber Nirmal Purja was leading a team of mountaineers attempting to scale Broad Peak when an avalanche struck on July 30. Set as preferred sourceSKARDU, Pakistan – A search team has transported the bodies of renowned climber Nirmal Purja and three of his team members to the base camp of the mountainThe avalanche struck on July 30, cutting off contact with the 10-member international expedition led by 43-year-old British-Nepali climber Purja on Broad Peak, one of the world’s highest mountains.
His company confirmed there were no survivors.
“On behalf of the Alpine Club of Pakistan, it is announced with great sadness to confirm that, following an exceptionally challenging and technically demanding recovery operation on Broad Peak, the bodies of Nirmal Purja, Zhong Wang, Nima Sherpa and Kilu Sherpa have been successfully recovered and have now arrived safely at Base Camp,” the ACP posted on social media, referring to a Chinese mountaineer and two other Nepali climbers. “We remain committed to supporting all possible efforts to locate and recover them, whenever conditions allow, so that they too may be returned home to their loved ones,” it added.
The remains of three other members of the team – an American woman, an Omani woman and a Nepali man – were earlier flown off the mountain to the northern Pakistani city of Skardu. , with the president of Nepal’s National Mountain Guide Association Tul Singh Gurung saying they have “lost a generation of accomplished mountaineers”.
“We hope this recovery brings them a measure of peace and the opportunity to lay their loved ones to rest with the dignity they deserve,” the club said. Broad Peak is the world’s 12th highest mountain, located in the Karakoram range in northern Pakistan, and is regarded as one of the toughest and most technical climbs of all the 8,000m-plus ascents.
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