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Earlier this year, Sarah Mallory Geis closed the doors of her Pilates studio in San Antonio, Texas, telling her friends where she believed her life was headed.
“Taking a giant leap of faith into the unknown to see where life goes,” she wrote on Instagram. “I have a sneaking suspicion there will be lots of helmets, harnesses, and crampons involved.”
That leap took her to the chill, rarefied air of Pakistan’s Broad Peak. Geis was killed in an avalanche on the mountain, the world’s 12th-highest, in the Karakoram range. She was part of a 10-person expedition led by renowned Nepal-born mountaineer Nirmal “Nims” Purja, when the avalanche struck Thursday. Geis was 39, CNN affiliate KENS reported.
Rescuers searching for the team have so far recovered three sets of remains, including Geis’, as they pressed on for the other climbers despite bad weather that hampered helicopter flights, authorities said. Purja remained among those unaccounted for.
