Pak FM informs Chilean counterpart of rescue ops for missing climber International | Written by : IANS| Updated:
Islamabad, Feb 10 (IANS) Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi apprised his Chilean counterpart Andres Allamand on rescue operations to locate a Chilean climber, who went missing with two others while attempting to scale K2, the world s second-highest peak.
The Chilean climber Juan Pablo Mohr was attempting to scale K2 with Pakistan s renowned mountaineer Ali Sadpara, and John Snorri from Iceland when they lost contact and went missing on February 5 owing to bad weather conditions, Xinhua news agency reported.
The Foreign Ministry said in a statement that Qureshi on Tuesday expressed his deep concern over the missing team of mountaineers and apprised Allamand of efforts being made to locate them, including a number of search flights by Pakistan Army Aviation helicopters amid challenging weather conditions over a treacherous terrain.