{"id":246713,"date":"2024-08-20T00:28:25","date_gmt":"2024-08-19T18:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=246713"},"modified":"2024-08-20T00:28:25","modified_gmt":"2024-08-19T18:58:25","slug":"2-russians-rescued-1-missing-after-a-mass-of-ice-hits-a-climbing-team-on-a-pakistan-peak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2024\/08\/20\/2-russians-rescued-1-missing-after-a-mass-of-ice-hits-a-climbing-team-on-a-pakistan-peak\/","title":{"rendered":"2 Russians rescued, 1 missing after a mass of ice hits a climbing team on a Pakistan peak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">ISLAMABAD, 19 Aug (AP) \u2014 A Pakistani army helicopter rescued two Russians while one is missing after their team was hit by a pile of ice on a treacherous peak in the country\u2019s north, an official said Monday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Karrar Haidri, the secretary of the Alpine Club of Pakistan, said a rescue mission was underway to safely bring down two more climbers who were part of the five-member Russian team stranded on Gasherbrum peak in the Karakoram range after the ice formation hit their team.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cUnfortunately, the expedition encountered a devastating disaster. As the team ascended the mountain, an ice formation, possibly a serac, collapsed, unleashing a catastrophic event,\u201d Haidri said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said the rescue mission was launched on Saturday after the ice hit the climbers, who were on a mission to retrieve the body of a climber lost on the same mountain in 2023.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said there was no government advisory about bad weather and the climbers faced the disaster suddenly after the mass of ice fell on them.<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><a style=\"color: #ffffff;\" href=\"http:\/\/digitnews.in\">.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hundreds of climbers try to scale mountains in northern Pakistan every year, and such accidents are common because of avalanches and sudden weather changes. Last week, a Pakistani climber Murad Sadpara, 35, known for taking part in high-altitude rescue missions died during a descent from one of the country\u2019s tallest mountains in the north.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD, 19 Aug (AP) \u2014 A Pakistani army helicopter rescued two Russians while one is missing after their team was hit by a pile of ice on a treacherous peak in the country\u2019s north, an official said Monday. Karrar Haidri, the secretary of the Alpine Club of Pakistan, said a rescue mission was underway to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-246713","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}