Mountaineer Nirmal Purja among those reported missing after avalanche hit Broad Peak, Pakistan alpine club says.<\/p>\n
Published On 31 Jul 202631 Jul 2026<\/p>\n
The bodies of four climbers have reportedly been located by Pakistani search crews after at least 10 mountaineers went missing in a suspected avalanche on Broad Peak a \u2060day earlier, officials said.<\/p>\n
Among those missing is Nepali mountaineer Nirmal Purja, also known as Nims Dai, who holds the record for the fastest ascent of the world\u2019s 14 highest mountains, the Alpine Club of Pakistan (ACP) said earlier.<\/p>\n
Efforts were underway to retrieve the bodies of the four climbers despite the harsh weather on Friday, the Associated Press and Reuters news agencies reported, citing Pakistani sources. The AP said authorities did not identify whose bodies were found.<\/p>\n
Sajid Hussain, the deputy director of the tourism department in Pakistan\u2019s Gilgit-Baltistan region, told Reuters the search for the remaining six was focusing on a \u201cremote and difficult area\u201d.<\/p>\n
Broad Peak is the 12th-highest mountain in the world.<\/p>\n
The 10 climbers, led by Purja, went missing after an avalanche in northern Pakistan where they were on a climbing expedition, the ACP said late on Thursday.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe 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,\u201d the club said in a statement.<\/p>\n
It said the expedition comprised of 10 people, including five Nepali climbers, Pakistani mountaineer Sohail Sakhi from Hunza, Omani climber Nathira, American climber Mallory Geis, a Chinese climber identified only as Wang, and another foreign climber whose nationality it did not disclose.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe entire team has reportedly been out of communication since the avalanche,\u201d the club said.<\/p>\n
\u201cEvery possible effort is being made to ensure that helicopter support and all available rescue resources are mobilised at the earliest opportunity, subject to weather and operational conditions,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n
Purja, 43, has broken multiple climbing records since becoming a full-time mountaineer and tour guide in 2018, after leaving the British military.<\/p>\n
He climbed all 14 \u201ceight-thousanders\u201d (peaks above 8,000 metres, or 26,000 feet) in six months and six days between April and October 2019, a record at the time.<\/p>\n
In 2021, Purja completed the first winter ascent of K2 as part of a team of nine other Nepalese climbers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mountaineer Nirmal Purja among those reported missing after avalanche hit Broad Peak, Pakistan alpine club says. Published On…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1121906,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2],"tags":[521,728,13,839,140982,12,6858,6026,93,14],"class_list":["post-1121905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-asia","tag-environment","tag-headlines","tag-middle-east","tag-nepal","tag-news","tag-oman","tag-pakistan","tag-sport","tag-top-stories"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117014051091902203","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1121905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1121906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1121905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1121905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1121905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}