Renowned mountaineer and erstwhile British Army worker Nirmal Purja is among those to person been killed successful an avalanche connected Broad Peak successful Pakistan, his institution has said.
Elite Expeditions shared the quality successful a station connected societal media, saying it was with "profound sadness and immense heartbreak" that it confirmed Purja's decease successful Thursday's avalanche.
It besides said it had received confirmation that the different 9 members of the expedition had not survived.
The Nepal-born climber was known for scaling the world's 14 highest peaks successful conscionable implicit six months successful 2019.
Pakistani officials antecedently said the bodies of 3 climbers - American Mallory Geis, Nadhira Ahmed Abdullah Al Harthy from Oman and Pur Bahadur Gurung from Nepal - who were among the 10-person expedition had been recovered.
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