ISLAMABAD – Pakistan military on Tuesday rescued six mountain climbers whenan avalanche trapped them on the peak of the Hindu Kush near the borderwith Afghanistan.
The climbers, four of them Italian, two of them Pakistani were hit whilescaling a 5,300-foot peak in the mountain range on Monday, an official said.
A Pakistani guide was killed immediately and the survivors sustained minorinjuries, he added.
“The injured were shifted Combined Military Hospital (CMH) in Gilgit,”Naiknam Karim, the chief executive of Adventure Tours of Pakistan, said ina telephone interview from Gilgit, in northern Pakistan. “The Pakistaniclimbers can walk, while the Italian have minor injuries.”
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Officials said it had taken two helicopters roughly four hours to bring theclimbers down.
“The Italians had attempted to climb the summit last year, too, but theattempt was unsuccessful,” Karim added.
