Top Pakistani climber, two other mountaineers missing on K2 declared dead

Top Pakistani climber, two other mountaineers missing on K2 declared dead

The Hindu

Renowned Pakistani mountaineer Muhammad Ali Sadpara and two other climbers who went missing early this month while attempting to scale K2, the world's second-highest mountain, were declared dead on Thursday after hectic efforts spanning over two weeks to locate them failed to produce any positive result. Sadpara and his companions John Snorri from Iceland and Juan Pablo Mohr from Chile went missing on February 5 on the K2 mountain in Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) region. They had teamed to summit the 8,611-metre peak in winter, a huge challenge.
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