Army helicopter rescues stranded mountaineers in Ishkoman Valley
A Pakistani mountaineering official said on Tuesday that an army helicopter has rescued four Italian and two Pakistani climbers stranded after being hit by a snow avalanche in the Ishkoman Valley.
A seven-member Pakistan-Italian friendship expedition comprising four Italian climbers led by Tarcisio Bellò, Nadeema and Shakeela, students of Karakoram International University, and a guide namely Mohammad Imtiaz from Shimshal valley, had started their adventure to climb an unknown 5,300-metre peak in Hindukush mountain range in Ishkoman valley on June 2.
On Monday, Mohammad Imtiaz, a Pakistani member of the expedition, was killed, while six, including foreigners, were injured by a snow avalanche.
Karrar Haidri, secretary of the Alpine Club, told The Associated Press that the six rescued climbers were lifted on Tuesday to a hospital in Gilgit for medical treatment.
The climbers were at an altitude of around 17,390 feet in Ishkoman Valley in the Ghizar district.
Officials say all the rescued mountaineers were listed in a stable condition and none had life threatening injuries.
Comments (3) Closed
5,300-metre peak is just 17,400 feet. It should have been a child's play for international climbers.
A good news story! Bravo...
Gordon D. Walker
Canada
@M. Saeed, Please don’t boost, without any experience. Must appreciate the timely rescue operations by brilliant valiant brave Pak Army. So far there’s not a single example in the whole world that all 140 soldiers buried in Gayari sector were take out of deep snow by Pak Army .