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Nepal mourns as hundreds pay final tribute to Pur Bahadur Gurung 'Yukta' in Kathmandu
6 August 2026Hundreds of mountaineers, family members, friends and well-wishers gathered in Kathmandu on Thursday to pay their final respects to veteran Nepali mountain guide Pur Bahadur "Yukta" Gurung, whose body was brought home from Pakistan a week after he was killed in the deadly Broad Peak avalanche.
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ClimbingRecovery team struggled for 12 hours to retrieve climbers from 5,500m on Broad Peak; all bodies flown to Skardu, says Mingma G
6 August 2026Renowned 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.
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ClimbingMingma David Sherpa returning to Nepal with Yukta Gurung's body after Broad Peak tragedy
6 August 2026Lawmaker 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.
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T3 SpecialNima Sherpa: A rising Himalayan mountaineer lost in the Broad Peak avalanche
5 August 2026Nima Sherpa, a promising Nepali high-altitude mountaineer who rose from a humble farming family in Sankhuwasabha to scale some of the world's highest peaks, was among the 10 climbers killed in the devastating Broad Peak avalanche in Pakistan on July 30.
