score: A climber from Poland fled Darfani after scaling the world’s ninth-highest peak, Nanga Bhatt, officials said Tuesday, confirming the mountaineer’s death, the first fatality of the season.
A statement issued by the Alpine Club of Pakistan said that Polish climber Pawel Tomasz Kopiec died while descending the 8,125-meter (26,656-foot) Nanga Parbat on Monday.
Five of the world’s 14 mountains above 8,000 meters are in Pakistan – including the Himalayan peak Nanga Parbat, nicknamed the “Murderer Mountain” after more than 30 people died in the first successful summit attempt in 1953. .
Club Secretary Karar Hydari said that Kopec’s body is at an altitude of 7,400 meters and it is not possible to lift the body from there by hand as even a helicopter cannot land there.
“Now it is up to his family and friends what they decide,” he said.
Thirty-eight-year-old Kopec was a member of the Swietokrzyski Mountaineering Club, who believed that the Nanga Parbat adventure posed no danger to him because he had already climbed its highest peak. .
A friend, who identified himself only as Matthews, paid tribute on Kopec’s Facebook page, writing: ‘The mountains always drove Paul and he ended his life here, together. Paul’s mission and movement have been moving forward.
Pakistani mountaineer Asif Bhatti, along with his climbing partner Fazal Ali, also faced difficulties in summiting Nanga Parbat over the weekend. Bhatti was blinded by the snow and the pair became trapped in one of the high camps on the summit, but Pakistani climbers started coming down again on Tuesday, according to Karakoram Expeditions, which is helping with the rescue.
Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif directed Gilgit-Baltistan and army authorities to immediately rescue mountaineer Asif Bhatti. The instructions came after the mountaineer’s son appealed to the Prime Minister on social media for the safe evacuation of his stranded father.
It should be noted that the summer adventure season on Nanga Parbat and K-To starts from June and continues till August, during which climbers from all over the world come to summit and set records.
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