Renowned mountaineer Nirmal Purja killed in Pakistan avalanche

Ten climbers, including six Nepalese and four foreign nationals, were killed in the avalanche on Broad Peak in Pakistan's Karakoram range.

On a Thursday morning in the Karakoram range, the mountain that Nirmal Purja had asked for safe passage did not yield it. The 43-year-old British-Nepali mountaineer — who had compressed the impossible into 189 days by summiting all 14 of the world's highest peaks — died in an avalanche on Broad Peak alongside nine others, six of them Nepalese. He had come not by original plan but by the logic of ambition: one more summit would have placed him on the threshold of a second, oxygen-free completion of the full eight-thousander roster. In his death, as in his life, Purja reminds us that the mountai

Renowned mountaineer Nirmal Purja killed in Pakistan avalanche

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