UPDATE: Chances of finding Broad Peak Avalanche victims alive almost nil, search team attempting recovery, three bodies airlifted to Skardu
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Tourism Times
Published at : 31 Jul 2026, 4:44 PM
KATHMANDU: Chances of finding climbers alive on Broad Peak are almost nil, as ground and aerial search teams have expedited search-and-rescue operations at the avalanche site.
Climbers who returned from K2, abandoning their summit push after the Broad Peak avalanche, told The Tourism Times that they flew a sophisticated drone and also received information from the search-and-rescue teams indicating that the chances of survival for all the climbers caught in the avalanche are almost nil.
“Three - Nadhira Al Harthy, Yukta Gurung, and an unidentified body part, probably belonging to an American climber - have been airlifted to Skardu, while the search team is attempting to recover other bodies from the Concordia side of the mountain.”
“The team that flew a drone from base camp noticed that four climbers - Nirmal Purja ‘Nimsdai’, Kili Pemba Sherpa, Nima Sherpa, and Wang Zhong - were seen to have perished just below Camp I, toward the Concordia side,” the team which flown a drone shared.
The search team also noted that all 10 climbers, including renowned mountaineer Nimsdai, had perished on the Concordia side, the climbers, who coordinated with the search-and-rescue team there, confirmed.
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