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GILGIT: A search and rescue operation to locate seven climbers part of a 10-man team that went missing after an avalanche at Broad Peak earlier this week resumed on Saturday morning.
The operation was suspended late Friday due to adverse weather conditions in the region.
The bodies of three climbers — Oman’s Nadhira Ahmed Abdullah Al Harthy, Nepal’s Pur Bahadur Gurung and American Mallory Geis — were found on Friday and airlifted to Skardu.
The missing climbers include five from Nepal, including renowned mountaineer Nirmal Purja, Kili Pemba Sherpa, Nima Sherpa, Nawang Thindu Sherpa and Gyalu Sherpa. Pakistan’s climber Sohail Sakhi and China’s Wang Zhong are also among those missing.
