ISLAMABAD - Commander of French Joint Force in Indian Ocean Rear Admiral Didier Malterre Wednesday conferred France National Defence Bronze Medal on brave pilots of Pakistan Army Aviation for taking part in rescue operation of French Mountaineer, Elisabeth Revol at Nanga Parbat. A Special Award ...

KATHMANDU - A traffic jam of climbers in the Everest "death zone" was blamed for two of four new deaths reported Friday, heightening concerns that the drive for profits is trumping safety on the world's highest peak. Nepal has issued a record 381 permits costing $11,000 each for the ...

ISLAMABAD - One member of a three-man mountaineering expedition has died in an avalanche on a more than 7,000-metre high peak in Pakistan, officials said on Saturday. Alpine Club of Pakistan secretary Karrar Haidri said Austrian mountaineer Christian Huber was killed when an avalanche hit the ...

ISLAMABAD - K2, in northern Pakistan on the border with China, remains the only peak in the world above 8,000 metres that has never been climbed in winter. A team of Polish mountaineers attempting the first winter summit of K2, the world's second highest peak, have called off their bid citing bad ...

ISLAMABAD - The people of France and Poland have praised Pakistan for helping in an operation carried out to rescue the Polish and French mountaineers on the killer mountain of Nanga Parbat in north of Pakistan last week. Pakistan’s deputy head of mission in Polish capital Warsaw, Shifaat ...

French climber Elisabeth Revol who was rescued from a Himalayan peak amid bad weather has returned home on Tuesday. Her Polish mate climber natural Tomasz Mackiewicz, was dead after his rescue. The two mountaineers got stuck while they were climbing Pakistan's Nanga Parbat.

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 ...