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Islamabad, February 7
Pakistan Army helicopters on Sunday suspended the search and rescue operations after failing to trace three climbers, including renowned Pakistani mountaineer Muhammad Ali Sadpara, who went missing two days ago on K2, the world’s second highest mountain.
Sadpara and two other climbers, John Snorri from Iceland and Juan Pablo from Chile, were trying to summit the 8,611-metre (28,250-foot) high K2 mountain, sometimes referred to as “Savage Mountain” when they went missing on Friday night, according to officials.
Two army helicopters flew for the second day to their maximum limit of 7,800 metres and conducted aerial reconnaissance for an hour to locate the missing climbers but without any success.