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Two Italian climbers spotted on deadly peak in northern Pakistan
A rescue helicopter has spotted two Italian mountaineers stranded on one of the world's deadliest peaks in northern Pakistan, the Italian embassy said on Saturday.
- Reuters
- Published: 23:05 July 19, 2008
Islamabad: A rescue helicopter has spotted two Italian mountaineers stranded on one of the world's deadliest peaks in northern Pakistan, the Italian embassy said on Saturday.
The two climbers - Simon Kehrer and Walter Nones - had been stranded on Nanga Parbat, also known as Killer Mountain, since early this week when their colleague, Karl Unterkircher, fell into a crevasse and died.
"They have been spotted. They have also been reached with some equipment, food and other things. We dropped them a bag with some equipment," Italian embassy spokesman Oddo Sergio told Reuters.
However, he said bad weather and the sharp incline were hampering efforts to rescue them.
Nanga Parbat is the world's ninth-highest peak. Its name in in the Urdu language means Naked Mountain.
The 8,126-metre high peak at the western end of the Himalayas was first conquered by German Buhl, of Germany, in 1953 after 31 people died attempting it.
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