ISLAMABAD – Pakistan Army has started a search and rescue operation to find out three missing climbers including Muhammad Ali Sadpara, John Snorri, and Juan Pablo at K2 Mountain. Sources said it's being more than 30 hours at the base camp, and there has been no news of any of the mountaineers ...

RAWALPINDI: Pakistan Army Aviation pilots on Sunday rescued two foreign mountain climbers from Baltoro Glacier, said Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) in a statement. According to ISPR, two foreign mountain climbers, Donald Allen Bowie (USA) and Lotta Henriikka Nakyva (Finland) were part of ...

ISLAMABAD – Pakistan military on Tuesday rescued six mountain climbers when an avalanche trapped them on the peak of the Hindu Kush near the border with Afghanistan. The climbers, four of them Italian, two of them Pakistani were hit while scaling a 5,300-foot peak in the mountain range on ...

NEW DELHI: In India, the helicopter mission to recover the bodies of five missing climbers who were killed in an avalanche in the Himalayas was halted after encountering technical problems. An Indian air force helicopter on Monday spotted five bodies partially buried in snow high on a slope after ...

NEW DELHI - Treacherous conditions forced India's military Wednesday to abort an aerial attempt to recover the bodies of eight climbers feared killed high in the Himalayas, officials said. An Air Force helicopter took off early Wednesday carrying elite paramilitary mountaineers to conduct what ...

*ISLAMABAD: *A four-member international climbing team is all set to embark on the journey to climb 8,126 metres Nanga Parbat in the extremes of winter. “The team, comprising two Pakistani climbers Rehmatullah and Karim Hayat and as many foreigners Thomas Ballard (British) and Danile Nardi ...

ISLAMABAD - Russian climbers are set to arrive in Pakistan in order to scale Nanga Parbat and K2, a local media outlet *reported link *on Sunday. Three expeditions are expected to attempt to conquer the two peaks. K2 is the only 8000 metre peak in the world that has not been scaled ...

ISLAMABAD - Elite Polish climbers were on Saturday ascending Pakistan's treacherous "Killer Mountain" in the dark to save a French woman mountaineer and a fellow Pole, officials said, hoping the daring effort could see them reach the French climber on Sunday. Military helicopters buzzing over the ...

*Islamabad/Warsaw: *Efforts to rescue a Polish man and a French woman stuck on a treacherous peak in northern Pakistan known to mountaineers as "Killer Mountain" are set to begin on Saturday, officials said. Tomasz Mackiewicz from Poland and Elisabeth Revol of France were attempting to ascend ...

Nepal has banned solo climbers from scaling its mountains, including Mount Everest, in a bid to reduce accidents. The new safety regulations also prohibit double amputee and blind climbers from attempting to reach the summit of the world's highest peak without a valid medical certificate. A ...