A courageous rescue team, led by renowned Nepali mountaineer Mingma G, has successfully recovered the bodies of three climbers, including Nirmal ‘Nimsdai’ Purja, who had been stranded at 5,000 meters on Broad Peak following a massive avalanche a week ago.
Lawmaker and veteran mountaineer Mingma David Sherpa is returning to Nepal on Thursday with the body of climber Pur Bahadur "Yukta" Gurung, saying he is coming home "with an extremely heavy and broken heart" following the deadly Broad Peak avalanche in Pakistan.
Renowned Nepali climber Mingma G, who led the daunting mission to recover bodies from Broad Peak, said that all five bodies of the climbers, including Nirmal Purja ‘Nimsdai’, were airlifted to Skardu from the base camp on Thursday morning.
Pur Bahadur Gurung, widely known in Nepal's mountaineering circles as "Yukta," was among the climbers who lost their lives when a massive avalanche struck the Broad Peak (8,047m) expedition in Pakistan on July 30, 2026.
A search team has spotted a few mortal remains on Yalung Ri peak in Dolakha’s Rolwaling region, where at least seven climbers perished in an avalanche nine months ago.
Here is a brief profile of renowned climbers who put their lives at risk while retrieving the bodies of climbers from the treacherous slopes of Broad Peak on August 5.
A helicopter is set to fly to Yalung Ri peak in the Rolwaling Valley in a couple of hours today to collect mortal remains from the area where a massive avalanche struck a team of international climbers last year.
Nirmal “Nimsdai” Purja, the Nepal-born mountaineer who compressed the challenge of climbing all 14 of the world’s 8,000-metre peaks from years into months and helped place Nepali climbers at the centre of global mountaineering, died in an avalanche on Broad Peak in Pakistan on July 30. He was 43.
A recovery team led by Phurba Tenjing Sherpa, Managing Director of Dreamers Destination Treks, reached Lamabagar in Dolakha with two helicopters on Friday morning, but adverse weather prevented the aircraft from flying onward to Yalung Ri base camp to recover mortal remains spotted at the avalanche site.
A recovery team led by renowned climber Phurba Tenzing Sherpa today successfully retrieved five bodies of climbers who went missing in an avalanche on Yalung Ri peak nine months ago.