The company Elite Exped confirmed this noon the death of one of its owners, Nirmal “Nimsdai” Purja, trapped on Thursday morning by an avalanche with nine other people on Broad Peak, 8,051 meters, in Pakistan. Purja, a Nepalese also with British nationality, had gained fame for being the first person to complete, in 2019, the 14 eight-thousanders in a record time, in just six months and six days, with the help of artificial oxygen. Colleagues from his agency have moved to the area to continue the search and recovery tasks of the missing bodies. “Today, with deep sadness and a broken heart, we confirm that Nirmal Purja tragically lost his life. We have also received confirmation that other members of the expedition sadly did not survive,” states Elite Exped in a statement.

There are matches that last a sneeze; others, on the other hand, are as long as a night watching over a baby. The Madrid-Oviedo (2-0) with nothing at stake falls squarely into the second category. What is the point of the game of a team whose motto is only to win when it can no longer do so? That is what the white footballers who took to the pitch would have thought, whistled at by their fans during the warm-up, then victims of a sepulchral silence in a half-empty Bernabéu. It is more interesting to spend the San Isidro holiday elsewhere than watching Camavinga lose balls in his season to forget, the icing on the cake being that, hours before the match, it was made official that he would miss the World Cup. “I understand that he is pissed off,” said the eloquent Didier Deschamps.