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January 20, 2021
ISLAMABAD: A missing Russian-American climber died on a mountain while preparing to scale the worldâs 12th-highest peak, having refused to turn back in dangerous winter conditions, a spokesman for the expedition said Tuesday.
Alex Goldfarb pushed on alone when his teammate failed to persuade him to give up during an acclimatising mission, ahead of a bid to scale the nearby 8,051-metre Broad Peak in the Karakoram range on the Chinese border. We are deeply saddened to have lost our climbing partner and friend, said Laszlo Pinter, spokesman for the Broad Peak Winter Expedition 2021. The helicopter search mission has found his body on Pastore Peak where he is presumed to have fallen off the mountain, he said in a statement.
Attempts to recover body of American climber Alex Goldfarb in Pakistan 1 minute read
Islamabad, Jan 20 (efe-epa).- A team of porters on Wednesday tried to recover the body of American mountaineer Alex Goldfarb at Pastore Peak (6,209 meters or 20371 feet), where he was found dead on Monday.
This marked the second death this season in the mountains of Pakistan following the death of Sergi Mingote of Spain.
“Today high altitude porters went up to take his body back,” Alpine Club Of Pakistan’s spokesperson Karrar Haidri told EFE.
He added that they did not know yet if the operation was successful or not.
ISLAMABAD: A missing Russian-American climber died on a mountain while preparing to scale the world’s 12th-highest peak, having refused to turn back in dangerous winter conditions, a spokesman.
Boston COVID doctor and Harvard lecturer, 56, dies in fall while climbing one of the world s highest mountains in Pakistan
Dr Alex Goldfarb-Rumyantzev was climbing Pastore Peak near K2 in Karakoram mountains when he went missing on Saturday
His body was discovered on Monday by Pakistani military after apparent fall
Goldfarb and his mountaineering partner were preparing to ascend Broad Peak, world s 12th highest mountain
Goldfarb, a well-respected medical doctor and Harvard lecturer, had volunteered to treat COVID patients from the outset of the pandemic
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Published: 19 Jan 2021 02:55 PM BdST
Updated: 19 Jan 2021 02:55 PM BdST Polish climber Magdalena Gorzkowska attempts to climb the K2 mountain in winter, in Pakistan in this undated photo. REUTERS
Pakistan s military located the body of American mountaineer Alex Goldfarb-Rumyantzev on Monday in the Karakoram mountains in northern Pakistan, the second death of a foreign climber in the area in less than a week. );
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A helicopter team spotted Goldfarb s remains during a search and rescue operation that began on Sunday, according to the Alpine Club of Pakistan.
He appeared to have fallen off the mountain, Hungarian expedition company Magyar Expedicios, which was supporting the climbers, said in a statement.