*SKARDU: Pakistani mountaineer Muhammad Ali Sadpara — along with climberfrom Iceland John Snorri, is reported to be missing during his winterascent on K2 and contact with the 3-member expedition has not beenestablished for the last 25 hours. *
The climbers went missing while returning to the basecamp 4, while SajjidSadpara reached basecamp 3 last night.
A rescue operation has now been launched to locate the missing climbers.Two helicopters of the Pakistan Army rescue team are taking part in theoperation.
Sadpara along with his team was on a mission to summit the mountain inwinter without oxygen.
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Bulgarian climber Atanas Georgiev Skatovlink conceded a fallwhile descending from camp 3 of K2 summit was declared dead on Friday afterhis body was found by Pakistan Army, said sources.
Skatov had fallen, yesterday, while making it back to K2 basecamp from camp3 where he’d climbed but on his way back he disappeared.
Later his body was found by the rescue teams of the Pakistan Army.
