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KATHMANDU \u2014 Celebrated Nepali climber Nirmal \u200bPurja, who set a record for the fastest ascent of the world\u2019s 14 highest mountains, died in an avalanche during an expedition in Pakistan<\/a>, his company said on Saturday.
\u201cToday it is with profound sadness and immense heartbreak that we confirm that Nirmal \u2018Nimsdai\u2019 Purja tragically lost his life following the avalanche on Broad Peak,\u201d his \u2060expedition organising company Elite Exped said in an Instagram post.
\u201cWe have also received confirmation that other members of the expedition sadly did not survive,\u201d it added.
Nepal <\/a>Prime Minister Balendra Shah said he was stunned at the deaths of the climbers, including Purja.
\u201cOnly physical journey of the climbers has stopped. But the history of their courage, dedication and contributions will always remain alive and inspiring,\u201d Shah wrote in a social \u2060media post.
Purja, 43, and nine others had been missing since Thursday after \u200bbeing \u2060struck by an avalanche on the 26,414-foot Broad Peak, the world\u2019s 12th-highest mountain, a technically difficult climb in Pakistan\u2019s Gilgit-Baltistan region.
Officials said the bodies of Purja and other climbers were located in a difficult site and \u2060had yet to be retrieved.
Purja, who served in the British military with the Gurkhas and later in special forces, \u200bcompleted his \u2060record-breaking feat in six months in 2019. He \u200cbecame widely known internationally after the Netflix documentary chronicling his journey, \u201c14 Peaks: Nothing Is Impossible,\u201d was released two years later.
U.K. defence minister Wes Streeting said he was \u201cincredibly\u201d sad to learn of the death of Purja and the other climbers. \u201cHe was an \u200cinspirational man who served in our Armed Forces for many years – and whose \u200cincredible mountaineering adventures are known the world over,\u201d Streeting wrote on X. The 10 mountaineers were caught in an avalanche around midday on Thursday. Six of them were Nepalis and the others were from Pakistan, Oman, the U.S. and China.
Search crews recovered three bodies on Friday.
Chhang Dawa Sherpa, a board director of \u2060Seven Summit Treks which had three Sherpa guides among the dead climbers, said the remaining bodies were \u201cspotted and identified\u201d with the help of drone footage and were yet to be retrieved.
\u201cThey are in a difficult spot and have not been retrieved yet,\u201d Chhang told Reuters.
He said that unlike Nepal, Pakistan does not have the practice of long-line rescue by helicopters on the mountains.
\u201cWe have to take into account the safety of those who go and retrieve the bodies.\u201d
Sajid Hussain, deputy director of the tourism department of Gilgit-Baltistan region of Pakistan, said the rescue operation was ongoing.
\u201cRescue teams have successfully identified the location of the \u200cvictims; however, they have not yet been able to recover and bring them down safely,\u201d he told \u200bReuters.
While drone surveillance and aerial reconnaissance had helped identify the exact location, reaching the dead and safely recovering \u200cthem remains a difficult task, he said.
In 2019, Purja \u2060climbed Annapurna, the 10th-highest mountain in the world. He then began taking on other 8,000-metre peaks. Of the \u2060world\u2019s 14 highest mountains, eight are in Nepal, five in Pakistan and one in the Tibet region of China.
Elite climbers said Purja was a \u201ccharismatic colourful\u201d character. \u201cIf \u200cwe talk about his legacy it\u2019s \u200bhard to not focus on how he was at the \u200cforefront of shaking up the high-altitude guiding,\u201d British climber \u200bKenton Cool, who has climbed Everest 20 times, the most by a non-Sherpa, told Reuters.
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