10 climbers missing on Broad Peak (including Nims Purja)

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10 climbers missing on Broad Peak (including Nims Purja)

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https://explorersweb.com/breaking-avala ... mal-purja/
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Re: 10 climbers missing on Broad Peak (including Nims Purja)

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Update: Four bodies recovered, none identified yet.

https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/30/asia/cli ... g-intl-hnk
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Re: 10 climbers missing on Broad Peak (including Nims Purja)

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I read this last night. The 13 hour alarm delay and the paths shown by the trackers would appear to not bode well for these climbers. Still, I hope for survivors.
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Re: 10 climbers missing on Broad Peak (including Nims Purja)

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sad news, unfortunately i dont think there will be any survivors given the area that avalanched, but hopefully their bodies are recovered
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One of the bodies recovered was Nadhira Al Harthy from Oman. She was on my Everest team. Lovely woman..bright humble, and tough! RIP Nani!
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Re: 10 climbers missing on Broad Peak (including Nims Purja)

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I have a zoomed in video of that slope sliding wth people in it if I can find it where one person broke their leg last year. My only interaction with Nims was on Manaslu where in that brief interaction he was incredibly kind offering to share a whiskey in base camp at the end of the expedition which unfortunately never happened. Rest in peace to all the climbers lost and sccounted for so far.
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Re: 10 climbers missing on Broad Peak (including Nims Purja)

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Some details of this story continue to change. According to this link from the BBC 2 bodies have actually been recovered while 7 others have been spotted by aerial drones though their condition is unclear. The location of the final climber remains unknown.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cddjz1r01l8o
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Mingma G posted that 9 of the 10 bodies have been found. At this point, ~36 hours post-incident, the chances of anything positive are near 0

Edit - confirmed that there were no survivors
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desertdog wrote: ↑Fri Jul 31, 2026 12:01 pm One of the bodies recovered was Nadhira Al Harthy from Oman. She was on my Everest team. Lovely woman..bright humble, and tough! RIP Nadi!
Damn - sorry to hear this.
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Re: 10 climbers missing on Broad Peak (including Nims Purja)

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I confirmed with my agency from last year that it was this exact same slope that was triggered this year around 21,600 to 22,500ft. I took this video after a 3 day storm in 2025 while we waited in base camp for the snow to settle several climbers descended and watched them trigger this avalanche. You can see one person in the end of the video that was caught in it. Fortunately the only thing that happened with this one was a broken leg but this years avalanche after a week of heavy snowfall was much MUCH bigger. Traveling up that slope even after it had settled for a few days to camp 3 still felt pretty sketchy.

Sorry the video is shaky. It happened fast so grabbed the closest camera to me which was old canon pocket camera.

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Re: 10 climbers missing on Broad Peak (including Nims Purja)

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Obituary from the Daily Telegraph (major UK newspaper)...link should work for everyone:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/d77eafba76805500
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