August 14, 2026
The body of Sohail Sakhi, the Pakistani member of the expedition swept away on Broad Peak on July 30, has been recovered by three local volunteers from Shigar acting on their own initiative and moved to base camp.
August 7, 2026
The bodies of five more climbers killed in the Broad Peak avalanche were flown to Skardu, where a reception ceremony was held. Eight of the ten-member expedition have now been brought off the mountain; two remain unrecovered, including Pakistan's Sohail Sakhi.
August 6, 2026
The Alpine Club of Pakistan says the bodies of Nirmal Purja, Zhong Wang, Nima Sherpa and Kilu Sherpa have been recovered and brought to base camp after what it called an exceptionally challenging and technically demanding operation. Three climbers remain missing.
August 1, 2026
The British-Nepali climber Nirmal Purja and nine others have been killed in an avalanche on Broad Peak, his expedition company Elite Exped confirmed. The avalanche swept the party down the mountain's main west-facing gully at around 9am on Thursday. Purja was 43 and held the record for the fastest ascent of all fourteen 8,000-metre peaks.
July 31, 2026
Four bodies have been located after at least ten mountaineers, including the Nepali climber Nims Dai, went missing in an avalanche on Broad Peak in the Karakoram. The search for the remaining six is focused on what officials describe as a remote and difficult area.
March 2, 2025
Another picture shows what the Indian army says is a rescue operation by Indian Army members during heavy snowfall, after a snowstorm hit a camp near the village of Mana, in a location given as Garhwal Sector, Uttarakhand State, India, in this image released on 28th. Rescuers regained the eighth, final body from the Avalanche area. The army used drone -based detection system to help businesses. “It was if the angels of God had come to save us,” says Survivor. Dehradun, India: Rescuers regained the eighth and final body from a snowstorm in a remote region of northern India, the
January 16, 2024
About 1,000 tourists remain stranded in a remote resort village after avalanches hit China’s northwestern Xinjiang region with meters of snow and unsettled weather preventing evacuation, state television reported on Tuesday. Road access to the village of Hemu, a picturesque destination near the borders of Kazakhstan, Russia and Mongolia where tourists had been stranded, has been cut off by avalanches for several days. The village is in Xinjiang’s Altai province, where continuous snowfall in some areas has lasted 10 days, it said. Heavy snowfall caused dozens of avalanches along large stretches of highways in the Altay Mountains leading to the
November 28, 2023
Kyiv: A winter storm has battered central and southern Ukraine, killing at least five people in Ukraine and three in neighboring Moldova, with snow and strong winds knocking out power in hundreds of towns and villages and closing highways At least 19 people were injured in Ukraine and another 10 in Moldova. Forecasters said bad weather was approaching, with snow and rain across Ukraine on Tuesday. The extreme weather has hit as tens of thousands of troops man frontline positions in the 21-month war with Russia, amid fears Moscow could attack the power grid with airstrikes this winter. Ukrainian President
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