Nirmal Purja among ten climbers killed in Pakistan avalanche
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Nepalese mountaineer Nirmal Purja, 43, was confirmed among ten climbers killed after an avalanche struck Broad Peak, the world's twelfth-highest mountain, in Pakistan. Purja became widely known as the subject of the 2021 Netflix documentary "14 Peaks: Nothing Is Impossible", which chronicled his record-breaking ascent of all fourteen of the world's 8,000-metre peaks in under seven months, and his death represents a significant loss for the international mountaineering community.
The avalanche struck the 26,414-foot peak on Thursday, with the deaths of Purja and nine fellow climbers confirmed by Saturday. The tragedy occurred during a particularly deadly period for mountaineers worldwide, coinciding with a separate fatal avalanche near Castle Peak in California, where eight skiers were confirmed dead and one remained missing.
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In short
- Nirmal Purja, star of Netflix's "14 Peaks", died in Broad Peak avalanche
- Ten climbers confirmed dead in Pakistan on Saturday
- Separate California avalanche killed eight skiers around the same time
How this story developed
- 3 months ago Coverage of the tragedy shifted focus onto Purja's legacy as the subject of the Netflix documentary "14 Peaks: Nothing Is Impossible" and dropped the earlier detailed figures on the California avalanche, referring more broadly to the ongoing search effort there.
- 3 months ago Confirmation that Nepalese mountaineer Nirmal Purja, 43, was among ten climbers killed in a Broad Peak avalanche in Pakistan came on Saturday, two days after the mountain was struck, with search efforts also still ongoing for climbers hit by a separate avalanche near Castle Peak in California, where eight skiers were dead and one remained missing.
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Explained simply
Nirmal Purja was a Nepalese former Gurkha soldier and British special forces veteran who became one of the world's most celebrated high-altitude mountaineers. He rose to global fame after climbing all fourteen of the world's mountains over 8,000 metres in under seven months, smashing the previous record, a feat later chronicled in the Netflix documentary "14 Peaks: Nothing Is Impossible".
Broad Peak, where the avalanche struck, sits in Pakistan's Karakoram range and is the twelfth-highest mountain on Earth at over 26,000 feet. Peaks of this height are among the most dangerous in the world to climb, with thin air, extreme cold and unpredictable snow conditions making avalanches a constant risk for mountaineers attempting them.
Purja's death has drawn wide attention because of his standing in the climbing world, and it comes at a time when mountaineering deaths are already in the news, with a separate avalanche having killed several skiers near Castle Peak in California around the same period.
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Originally published by Fox News as “Famed mountaineer Nirmal Purja, 43, among 10 climbers killed after avalanche in Pakistan”.