The Sydney Morning Herald<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n\u201cThe team could not be reached since the incident.\u201d<\/p>\n
In an update on Friday, the organisation said drones had located additional bodies on the mountain, although identities and conditions could not yet be confirmed.<\/p>\n
\u201cBodies of two climbers have been recovered and sent to Skardu by helicopter. Seven climbers (bodies) have been spotted by drone; however, their condition and identities cannot yet be verified.<\/p>\n
\u201cGround rescue team will continue search mission first thing in the morning. K2 expedition teams have voluntarily cancelled their expedition to focus on this mission.\u201d<\/p>\n
The club added that authorities from Pakistan, Nepal and the military were all involved in the rescue effort.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Government of Pakistan, the Government of Gilgit-Baltistan, the Government of Nepal, and the Pakistan Army are all engaged in the rescue mission.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hope remains for some of the missing after Purja\u2019s tracking device reportedly showed signs of movement following the avalanche.<\/p>\n
His business partner, Mingma Gyabu Sherpa, told Nepali outlet Kantipur that GPS data indicated the mountaineer may have survived the initial slide.<\/p>\n
\u201cInitially, it appeared that he had been swept downhill by the avalanche.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut after the point where the tracking had stopped, the location appears to have shifted again.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have received information that one person\u2019s location appears to be near the foot of the mountain. A search team has gone there to verify.\u201d<\/p>\n
Purja became one of mountaineering\u2019s biggest names in 2019 after climbing all 14 of the world\u2019s peaks above 8,000 metres in just 189 days, shattering the previous record by more than seven years. The extraordinary achievement became the subject of the Netflix documentary 14 Peaks: Nothing Is Impossible.<\/p>\n
A former Gurkha and Royal Marines Special Boat Service soldier, Purja served in the British military for 16 years before dedicating himself to mountaineering full-time. He has since climbed Mount Everest six times, rescued stranded climbers in the notorious \u201cdeath zone\u201d and established a foundation supporting education initiatives and mountain clean-up projects across Nepal.<\/p>\n
In reflecting on his record-breaking achievements, Purja once said:<\/p>\n
\u201cIt has been a grueling but humbling six months, and I hope to have proven that anything is possible with some determination, self-belief and positivity.<\/p>\n
\u201cI could not have made it happen without the unending support of my friends and family who have been in my heart this entire time. We started with nothing, but look how far we\u2019ve come.\u201d<\/p>\n
Speaking previously about his motivation, he said he hoped his achievements would inspire future generations of Nepali climbers.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs a Nepali, I hope my climbs put a spotlight on the talented climbers here.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are always (new) boundaries.<\/p>\n
\u201c(That\u2019s) human, that\u2019s what we do.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fears are growing for one of the world\u2019s most celebrated mountaineers after an avalanche tore through Pakistan\u2019s Broad…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":836755,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40,1720],"class_list":["post-836754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=836754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/836755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=836754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=836754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=836754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}