Asgar Ali Porikh, head of the handling agency has confirmed the news with Dream Wanderlust. In an exclusive conversation, he said, "A Nepali Rope fixing Sherpa Team (of 6-8 sherpas), during summit route opening, has found bodies of three climbers below the bottle neck, somewhere at around 8000m. They found three climbers at different places without any rope attached to them." Porikh is hopeful about recovery of the bodies, "Tomorrow, support materials will be provided to the Sherpa team. Heli-rescue is possible once they recover the bodies and bring them to a lower altitude"
Ali Sadpara is the only Pakistani who climbed Nanga Parvat in Winter. It was the first ever Winter ascent of Nanga Parvat. He also climbed 8 of the 14 eight thousanders peak in the world. During their summit bid, on 5th February, Ali Sadpara along with Iceland's John Snorri and Chile's Juan Pablo Mohr went missing from somewhere above Camp-4. Ali's son Sajid who was also a member of the team abandoned his summit bid from bottleneck and later he was heli-rescued from the mountain.
The entire mountaineering community is waiting with anticipation if any evidence can be found with the recovery of the bodies and the reason behind the mishap comes forth.
On the other hand, another heart breaking news came from K2, yesterday. Legendary Scottish Climber Rick Allen (68) died in an avalanche while attempting a new route on the SE Face of K2 with Spaniard Jordi Tosas and Austrian Stephan Keck in Alpine style.
Dream Wanderlust expresses condolences on his unfortunate demise.
Timeline
26th July, 2021- A sherpa team, while attempting K2, found the bodies of three missing climbers below the bottleneck at around 4PM.
6th February, 2021 - Two rescue choppers of Pakistani Air Force were sent to search the missing climbers. The helicopters could only be fown up to 7000m.
5th February, 2021 (7:45 PKT) - No news from the team since they reached Camp-3. The last signal from Snorri's GPS tracker showed they were at 7823m at 7:45 PKT.
5th February, 2021 - The team moved to Camp-3 from Camp-2 at 13:00 PKT and started the final summit push at 01:00 PKT.
3rd February, 2021 - The team had launched their second summit push and moved to Camp-2 from the Base Camp.
13th January, 2021 - The team moved up to Camp-2 and stayed there.
5th December, 2020 - The team (John Snorri, Muhammad Ali Sadpara and Sajid Ali Sadpara) arrived at the Base Camp of K2.
