Lost in K2’s killer embrace
The news was announced by Sadpara s son in a press conference with G-B tourism minister
KARACHI:
The search for three missing mountaineers – including Pakistan’s iconic climber Muhammad Ali Sadpara – was officially called off on Thursday with families saying the trio should now be considered dead on the world’s second highest peak.
The announcement by Sajid Sadpara, son of Ali Sadpara, draws curtain on a dramatic tragedy on K2 that kept Pakistan on the tenterhooks for nearly two weeks. It also drew to a close the perilous search and rescue operation – arguably one of the longest in the history of mountaineering.
Virtual base camp set up as Iceland Space Agency lends never-before used SAR technology
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February 11, 2021
SKARDU:
Despite a halt in the rescue operation owing to bad weather conditions, friends and families of Ali Sadpara and the other missing K2 climbers, vowed on Wednesday to carry on with the search of the savage mountain with the help of sophisticated satellite data.
Rescue efforts have been on since Pakistan s Ali Sadpara, 45, Iceland s John Snorri, 47, and Chile s Juan Pablo Mohr, 34, went missing on February 5 while attempting to ascent the K2.
“For the first time ever, this team is working with the Iceland Space Agency to review the SAR technology - that has never been used before for searching and rescuing - not the SAT technology, to cover every inch of the higher elevations of the mountain despite bad weather conditions,” read a statement issued from Skardu.