Gilgit, 4 July, 2023 (GNP): Mountaineer Asif Bhatti has successfully reached the base camp of the trapped climbers in the Nanga Parbat expedition. Due to bad weather, Bhatti and his team were stranded at Camp 4, located at an altitude of 7,500 meters.
With the help of his Azerbaijani partner, Bhatti managed to make it to the base camp safely. Nanga Parbat, standing at 8,126 meters, is the ninth-highest peak in the world and is notorious for its treacherous conditions. Regrettably, it has claimed the lives of 85 climbers so far, with a death probability of 21 percent.
As reported by the sources, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif had directed the Gilgit-Baltistan and Army authorities to immediately rescue mountaineer Asif Bhatti, who reportedly got trapped at 7500 meters height while scaling the 8,126-meter Nanga Parbat peak.
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Shehbaz Sharif instructed the Chief Secretary Gilgit Baltistan to contact Asif Bhatti’s son and assure him of immediate measures for the stuck-up climber’s rescue.
The directives from the PM came after the mountaineer’s son appealed to the prime minister on social media for the safe evacuation of his stranded father.
Pakistan’s mountaineer Asif Bhatti, also a university professor from Islamabad, has been stranded on Nanga Parbat with snow blindness.
However, the Karakoram Club, a travel organization in Pakistan, announced earlier in the day that a Heli had arrived at the base camp of Nanga Parbat after refueling.
As updated by @KE_xpeditions , the Heli has arrived at #NangaParbat bc after it went for refuelling in the morning. Due to high winds it's yet to be seen if it can take off for rescue mission. Meanwhile 2 climbers of KE are already climbing up the mountain so they can help Asif… pic.twitter.com/HOVFNlg1jD
— The Karakoram Club (@KarakoramClub) July 4, 2023
Earlier this week, renowned mountaineers Naila Kiani and Samina Baig became the first Pakistani women to scale Nanga Parbat.
Meanwhile, Sajid Sadpara successfully climbed Nanga Parbat without the help of supplementary oxygen and sherpas, local helpers, last month.
