GILGIT: A team of international climbers reached the base camp to summit the Nanga Parbat, known as the killer mountain.

Three Pakistanis are also part of the first summer season expedition team at Nanga Parbat. Lela Peak Expedition has organised the event.

The members of the team are Mario Vielmo, Tarcisio Bello, Nicola Bonaiti, Alberto Peruffo and Valerio Annovazzo from Italy; Matoco Erroz and Juan Pablo Toro from Argentina; Cesar Rosales from Peru; and Ali Musa Sadpara, Imtiaz Sadpara and Hassan Shigri from Pakistan.

Akbar Syed, an official, told Dawn that the expedition team with 110 local porters, kitchen and base camp staff arrived at Nanga Parbat base camp. The expedition members started acclimatisation. They would attempt to summit the peak within one month.

Many expedition teams have started arriving Pakistan to summit different peaks including K2, Gasherbrum-I, Gasherbrum-II, Broad and Nanga Parbat.

Published in Dawn, June 10th, 2022