polish climber Pawel Tomasz Kopec has died in his attempt to climb the Nanga Parbata peak of 8,126 meters high situated in Pakistanwhich is known as “the killer mountain” for the more than 80 climbers who have died on its slopes since the first attempt to climb it in 1895.
According to the spokesman for the Pakistani Mountaineering Club, the mountaineer suffered a severe altitude sickness when he was in an area near the top, 7,400 meters of altitude.
In turn, the Pakistani mountaineer, Asi Bhattiit’s found stuck on the peak with no chance to descend by his own means because the snow has blinded him. At the moment, rescue efforts are underway, but rescue teams They only have one day to save him. before the weather conditions worsen.
Every year, hundreds of local and foreign mountaineers try to climb Nanga Parbat, which was first crested by the Austrian Hermann Bullh in 1953 and that it has a 4,000-meter wall that must be climbed to be overcome.
The Polish mountaineer died the day after several mountaineers, including Pakistani women Naila Kiani and Samina Baigthey will reach the top of the “mountain of death” and start the return to the base camp.