Days before his death, Nirmal Purja wrote directly to the mountain he was preparing to climb: On 30 July 2026, an avalanche swept through his expedition on Broad Peak in Pakistan. Nims and the other members of the team lost…
Mingma David Sherpa, Nirmal “Nims Dai” Purja’s longtime climbing partner, close friend, and co-founder of Elite Exped, has shared a deeply personal tribute following Nims Dai’s death on Broad Peak. For Mingma David, Nims was far more than a climbing…
He survived one Everest avalanche by rescuing himself. A second avalanche, on Broad Peak, didn't give him the chance.
They left a coffee tin on the summit. It was the only monument they had time to build. Someone had carried it up through three camps and a night of rock climbing in the dark, and now, on the Central…
In July 2013, three young climbers from Tehran's Arash Mountaineering Club finished a route on Broad Peak that Iranian climbers had dreamed of for over a decade. They reached the summit. They never came down.
On July 30, 2026, Broad Peak witnessed one of the darkest days in its climbing history when an avalanche swept through a group of climbers between Camp 2 and Camp 3 at around 6,600 metres, taking the lives of 10…
A team of local volunteers from Shigar, searching the area on their own, found a body on Broad Peak this yesterda and it has now been confirmed as Sohail Sakhi, one of ten climbers killed in the avalanche of July…
Nepali singer and mountaineer Raju Lama reached the top of Mount Kilimanjaro on August 11 and dedicated the climb to the ten climbers who died in the Broad Peak avalanche on July 30. Lama, known for his music with the…
The Alpine Club of Pakistan has confirmed that the body of Sohail Sakhi, the Pakistani climber and guide who was lost in the Broad Peak avalanche, has been recovered. A team of local volunteers from Shigar, who had been searching…
There is a photograph of her that people across Oman and beyond kept sharing after she was lost. She is standing in snow, in hijab, against a wall of ice, smiling the way she always smiled. Nobody who knew her…
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