The avalanche that yesterday trapped ten members of an expedition led by the well-known British-Nepali mountaineer Nirmal Purja on Broad Peak, the twelfth highest mountain in the world, at 8,051 meters, in Pakistan, has shocked the mountaineering world. Rescue teams recovered this morning “the bodies of Nadhira Ahmed Abdullah Al Harthy, from Oman, and Pur Bahaur Gurung, from Nepal,” according to the president of the Alpine Club of Pakistan (ACP), Major General Irfan Arshad, who confirmed this to Efe. The leg of a third person was also found, he added. Arshad indicated that search efforts will continue tomorrow, Saturday.
The ACP corrected this afternoon the news spread this morning that four bodies had been located, as so far only two have been recovered, in addition to the remains of a third person. The search is focused on a “remote and difficult area,” said Sajid Hussain, deputy director of the Tourism Department of the Gilgit-Baltistan region, to Reuters.
The ACP stated that two helicopters from the Pakistan Army have flown over the area in search of the missing people of different nationalities and that ground forces have joined these efforts.
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Alongside Nirmal Purja, who gained notoriety in 2019 by becoming the person who managed to summit all 14 eight-thousanders in the shortest time, six months and six days, were nine expedition members yesterday: Pakistani Sohail Sakhi, Omani Nadhira Al Harthy, American Mallory Geis, Chinese Wang Zhong, and Nepalese Pur Bahadur Gurung, Kili Pemba Sherpa, Nima Sherpa, Nawang Thindu Sherpa, and Gyalu Sherpa, according to Efe. Purja’s adventure was the subject of a Netflix documentary.
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Chhang Dawa Sherpa, from the Nepalese agency Seven Summits Treks, told Reuters that the last recorded location of the mountaineers at the time of the avalanche was 6,600 meters.
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