ISLAMABAD (AP) 鈥� Search teams on Friday the last missing member of a 10-member international mountaineering team that was killed in an avalanche on Broad Peak weeks ago, a mountaineering official and local authorities said.
Geis鈥� remains were found by a team comprising of local volunteers, according to Irfan Arshad Khan, president of the Alpine Club of Pakistan. The expedition was Geis鈥� first attempt to climb an 8,000-meter (26,247-foot) peak in Pakistan.
The recovery ended a search that began on July 31 after the expedition, led by renowned climber Nirmal Purja, was swept away by an avalanche on Broad Peak.
Purja, a Nepal-born former British Army soldier widely known as Nims Dai, climbed the world鈥檚 14 highest peaks in a record 189 days in 2019, an achievement featured in the Netflix documentary 鈥�14 Peaks: Nothing Is Impossible.鈥� His record was broken in 2023.
in northern Pakistan because of avalanches, falling ice and rock, high altitude and rapidly changing weather.
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