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since the #broadpeak avalanche is getting some news coverage, here's one that came down when i was in base camp. it was so big the powder and gust reached base camp too (2022/06)

Finally editing images from the trek and found one of us resting below Broad Peak basecamp while on the Godwin-Austen #glacier, otw to K2 basecamp

On the right, #BroadPeak (8051m)
The middle, Chogori/ #k2 (8611m)
The left, Pastore Peak (6142m)

About 2 weeks before the recent Broad Peak #avalanche

The legendary mountaineer Nirmal Purja is among 10 climbers killed in an avalanche on Broad Peak in Pakistan. The tragedy has sent shockwaves through the global mountaineering community.

Purja rose to fame through the documentary 14 Peaks featuring his record-breaking climb of the world’s 14 highest mountains.

#BroadPeak #Pakistan #Mountaineering #MountainClimbing #NirmalPurja

They say there is no help in the death zone but sometimes there is:
Lukas Wörle from Austria gets high civilian award from Pakistan for his life-saving actions on Broad Peak in 2023.
Murtaza Sadpara (Pakistan), who worked as a high altitude porter, fell ill with high altitude sickness at 8000m. When Wörle discovered him (alone), Sadpara was conscious but couldn't tell him his name. Wörle shoved, pulled, and rappelled him down. Halfway down on the way to camp 3 he came across Dan Buonome (USA) and another porter, they provided medication and oxygen [Was not able to find the name of this porter].
Wörle and Buonome brought Sadpara down to Camp 3. Sadpara survived and lost several fingers to severe frostbite. He had not been able to afford oxygen or high-quality gloves. He says his clients lost sight of him while others accuse them of leaving him behind.

https://explorersweb.com/broad-peak-rescue/
https://www.climbing.com/places/worlds-strongest-mountaineers-from-pakistan-village/

alttext: white man with a beard (Lukas Wörle) on a steep mountain wearing a red jacket, a helmet and sun glasses, next to some climbing equipment. snow covered mountains in the background

#BroadPeak #Karakorum #Alpinism #LukasWoerle

RT @i_ameztoy: 14 x 8000 | #BroadPeak 🏔️ 8,051 m

🔸Located in the Karakoram range of Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan & Xinjiang, China,
🔸with a summit over 1.5 kms,
🔸it is the 12th highest mountain in the world.

Can you also spot K2 & Gasherbrum I? #EO #3D
@CopernicusEU #Sentinel2 🛰️ 2023-01-17 https://t.co/vjPyEc4ItH

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/CopernicusEU/status/1650593691310891024