ROME: Saturday the Italian ambassador to Pakistan confirmed the deaths of two climbers, one British and one Italian, who had been missing in Pakistan for weeks while climbing Nanga Parbat. The bodies of both missing climbers found dead on Pakistan’s Nanga Parbat.

Their bodies were located at an altitude of nearly 20,000 ft, on a part of the mountain known as the Mummery Spur.

On February 23, the two mountaineers had made the last contact to their base camp. A search operation had since been initiated with the assistance of the Pakistan Army. The choppers made several sorties to locate the missing mountain alpinists without success.

The “Mummery Spur,” along with two Gurkha climbers, is named after Alfred Mummery, a mountaineer who was killed by an avalanche in 1895 while trying to scale the peak.

Nanga Parbat is infamously known as the “Killer Mountain” because while trying to climb it, a very large number of people died.

Hundreds of mountaineers, most of them from Europe, each summer attempt to scale half a dozen peaks in the region, but only a few make the attempt in winter.

Karrar Haidri, secretary of the Alpine Club of Pakistan, said that Pakistani authorities have done everything they could to find the climbers. But now we’ve got the very bad news that our Missing climbers found dead on the Nanga Parbat in Pakistan.

Despite the closure of its airspace amid tensions with neighboring India over the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir, Pakistan dispatched helicopters carrying four rescuers led by Spanish mountaineer Alex Txikon. He said their efforts were hampered by foul weather.

Ballard, 30 years old, is the son of the famous British climber, Alison Hargreaves, who in 1995 became the first woman to climb Mount Everest without help but died later that year as she descended from the top of Pakistan’s K2, the second-highest mountain in the world.

Nardi, 42, from Rome, had tried many times to climb Nanga Parbat in winter. The summit made its first successful winter ascent in February 2016.

After finding two “silhouettes” using a high-definition telescope, Spanish climber Alex Txikon later found the bodies on the Mummery Spur trail, at around 5,900 m (19,356 ft).

Mr. Pontecorvo has released a video on Instagram showing two close-up figures on a small snow patch surrounded by jagged rocks. He said the bodies are going to be hard to reach but to try and recover them would be done everything possible.

It was the most extraordinary human and alpine experience I’ve ever had …… because it spared my life, it let me taste its violence and its honey, the Queen of Mountains … the Killer Mountain. “Daniele Nardi, 2014.

It is an ancient truism that death gives a mountaineer greater visibility than life. News anchors have chuntered over the past two weeks, keyboards battered, and printers rattled as media and public around the globe fixed on the search for Daniele Nardi and Tom Ballard on Nanga Parbat.

With the discovery of the lifeless bodies of the pair, joined by a rope, haplessly stretched across a slope on the Mummery Spur, through a long-distance photo, attention now turns to the reasons for their demise and to remember how they lived.

Karim Shah Nizari, a Gilgit mountain climber from Pakistan, near Nanga Parbat, said: “Nardi was very strong mentally. He was highly motivated and differed from other climbers. He was always saying, ‘A climber is someone climbing new routes.'”

Shah Nizari claims Nardi could handle the Spur and wouldn’t take unnecessary risks.

“He tried the route three times and nothing happened, so that wasn’t so dangerous to him. He had a better understanding of Nanga Parbat and the Mummery Spur than any other climber in the world …

The talented and tenacious mountaineer was hoping to build a mountaineering school to train rescue personnel in Pakistan. He is leaving a wife and a baby son behind. Shah Nizari remembers saying, “I ‘m going to be more careful now because I’m a dad.

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