On a Thursday in August, the Karakoram range claimed ten lives when an avalanche swept across Broad Peak, among them Nirmal Purja — the British-Nepali mountaineer whose Netflix-documented ascent of the world's fourteen highest peaks had made him a symbol of human ambition at its most extreme. He was 43, a former Gurkha and special forces soldier turned celebrated alpinist, leading a multinational expedition when the mountain rendered all experience and reputation irrelevant. The disaster reminds us, as the high peaks always do, that the vertical world operates by its own indifferent laws — and
Netflix's 'Nirmal Purja' Among 10 Climbers Killed in Pakistan Avalanche
Ten climbers from multiple nations were killed in the avalanche on Broad Peak, including renowned mountaineer Nirmal Purja and American climber Sarah Mallory Geis.