CHITRAL – Pakistan rescued two British mountaineers, three others stillmissing from the mountain top in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Pakistani rescue team have rescued two British mountaineers while threeothers, along with a guide, are trapped and awaiting rescue at the Koyo Zompeak in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
As per local media reports, five mountaineers from the UK, along with alocal guide, went missing in a bid to scale the Khoya peak near Brogil inUpper Chitral on Sunday.
The rescued climbers, identified as William Taylor Sim and John JamesCrook, have been shifted to the hospital through helicopter, says, official.
The three other, namely, Alastair James Swinton, Thomas MichaelLivingstone, Uisdean Robertson Hawthorn, and a local tour guide Imran arestill missing.
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Officials said that the British expedition team had reached the Koyo Zombase camp in Upper Chitral earlier this month.
Bad weather and darkness forced the rescue team to halt the searchoperation, which would now be resumed on Monday (today).
