Rescuers searching for 10 climbers missing after an avalanche on Pakistan’s Broad Peak located four bodies on Friday and were continuing to search for the other six despite adverse weather that hampered helicopter flights, officials said. CBC.... Efforts were underway to retrieve the bodies of the four climbers despite the harsh weather, according to senior government officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media. They did not immediately identify which bodies were found.  https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/pakistan-avalanche-climbers-dead-9.7291928                                                                                                             

Body of mountaineer Nirmal Purja recovered after the Pakistan avalanche. All 10 climbers swept away in avalanche in Pakistan are confirmed dead.PBS Aug 1, 2026 2:03 PM EDT ISLAMABAD (AP) — Renowned British-Nepali climber Nirmal Purja and nine other climbers swept away by an avalanche in Pakistan are confirmed to have died, and search teams are trying to recover their bodies, Purja's expedition company said Saturday. "The world has lost one of mountaineering's greatest climbers," the company, Elite Exped, said in a statement. It stressed that it mourned all the lives lost, adding: "No words can ease the pain of this unimaginable loss."

The 10-member expedition was swept away by an avalanche Thursday on Pakistan's Broad Peak. Rescuers found four bodies and recovered three of them Friday in harsh weather that hampered flights by search and rescue helicopters. Rescuers backed by military helicopters had resumed a search earlier on Saturday for the others. "The loss of these courageous climbers, who came from different nations united by their passion for the mountains, is an immeasurable loss to the global mountaineering fraternity," said Irfan Arshad Khan, the president of the Alpine Club of Pakistan. He paid tribute to the military and civilian rescuers and sherpas who took part in the search mission. "The mountains inspire us with their beauty, but they also remind us of the immense risks faced by those who venture into the high Himalaya and Karakoram," he said. Earlier Saturday, a local police official, Tahir Khan, said the remains of Omani climber Nathira Ahmed were being flown to the capital, Islamabad, while the bodies of American climber Mallory Geis and Nepalese climber Bahadur Gurung remained at a hospital in Skardu, the main city in Pakistan's northern Gilgit-Baltistan region.

The expedition was led by Purja, the Nepal-born former British Army soldier widely known as Nims Dai. He climbed the world's 14 highest peaks in a record 189 days in 2019, an achievement featured in the Netflix documentary "14 Peaks: Nothing Is Impossible." His record was broken in 2023. Purja's company described him as "a leader who inspired millions through his courage, humility and unwavering belief that human potential is far greater than we often imagine." The expedition was Geis' first try at an 8,000-meter peak in Pakistan, while it was expected to be the final one for Sakhi, who is a guide for the company, as well as a geographer and high-altitude photographer who has climbed some of the world's major peaks, according to the Moving Mountains website. Accidents are common on climbing expeditions in northern Pakistan because of avalanches, falling ice and rock, high altitude and rapidly changing weather. Khan reported from Peshawar, Pakistan.     https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/all-10-climbers-swept-away-in-avalanche-in-pakistan-are-confirmed-dead     

Rescuers searching for 10 climbers missing after an avalanche on Pakistan’s Broad Peak located four bodies on Friday and were continuing to search for the other six despite adverse weather that hampered helicopter flights, officials said. CBC.... Efforts were underway to retrieve the bodies of the four climbers despite the harsh weather, according to senior government officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media. They did not immediately identify which bodies were found.   https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/pakistan-avalanche-climbers-dead-9.7291928                                                                                                             

Body of mountaineer Nirmal Purja recovered after the Pakistan avalanche. All 10 climbers swept away in avalanche in Pakistan are confirmed dead.PBS Aug 1, 2026 2:03 PM EDT ISLAMABAD (AP) — Renowned British-Nepali climber Nirmal Purja and nine other climbers swept away by an avalanche in Pakistan are confirmed to have died, and search teams are trying to recover their bodies, Purja's expedition company said Saturday. "The world has lost one of mountaineering's greatest climbers," the company, Elite Exped, said in a statement. It stressed that it mourned all the lives lost, adding: "No words can ease the pain of this unimaginable loss." 

The 10-member expedition was swept away by an avalanche Thursday on Pakistan's Broad Peak. Rescuers found four bodies and recovered three of them Friday in harsh weather that hampered flights by search and rescue helicopters. Rescuers backed by military helicopters had resumed a search earlier on Saturday for the others. "The loss of these courageous climbers, who came from different nations united by their passion for the mountains, is an immeasurable loss to the global mountaineering fraternity," said Irfan Arshad Khan, the president of the Alpine Club of Pakistan. He paid tribute to the military and civilian rescuers and sherpas who took part in the search mission. "The mountains inspire us with their beauty, but they also remind us of the immense risks faced by those who venture into the high Himalaya and Karakoram," he said. Earlier Saturday, a local police official, Tahir Khan, said the remains of Omani climber Nathira Ahmed were being flown to the capital, Islamabad, while the bodies of American climber Mallory Geis and Nepalese climber Bahadur Gurung remained at a hospital in Skardu, the main city in Pakistan's northern Gilgit-Baltistan region.

The expedition was led by Purja, the Nepal-born former British Army soldier widely known as Nims Dai. He climbed the world's 14 highest peaks in a record 189 days in 2019, an achievement featured in the Netflix documentary "14 Peaks: Nothing Is Impossible." His record was broken in 2023. Purja's company described him as "a leader who inspired millions through his courage, humility and unwavering belief that human potential is far greater than we often imagine." The expedition was Geis' first try at an 8,000-meter peak in Pakistan, while it was expected to be the final one for Sakhi, who is a guide for the company, as well as a geographer and high-altitude photographer who has climbed some of the world's major peaks, according to the Moving Mountains website. Accidents are common on climbing expeditions in northern Pakistan because of avalanches, falling ice and rock, high altitude and rapidly changing weather. Khan reported from Peshawar, Pakistan.     https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/all-10-climbers-swept-away-in-avalanche-in-pakistan-are-confirmed-dead

Mountain’s peak has been measured every two years since 2001 and height has varied by almost 5 metreMont Blanc shrinks over two metres in height in two years - researchers. Reuters Geert De Clercq and Manuel Ausloos Oct 9 2023A team of topographers who perform measurements every two years told a news conference in Chamonix in the French Alps the mountain was now 4,805.59 metres (15766 ft) high, 2.22 metres lower than their last measurement of 4,807.81 metres (15773 ft) in September 2021."The top of Mont Blanc is like a dune, it moves, and it is not the first time we have measured height variations of more than two metres," said Cecile Taffin of the UNGE surveyors union.She added this year's particularly low level was probably due to a lack of rain and a hot summer.When precise GNSS satellite measurements started in September 2001, the Mont Blanc stood at 4,810.40 metres. Between 2001 and 2013 it ranged between 4,808 and 4,810 metres with a record 4,810.90 metres (15,783.79 ft) in 2007, but from 4,810.02 metres in 2013 it has been on a downward trend.

Mont Blanc's rocky peak culminates at 4,792 metres but total height depends on its snowpack, which typically increases over summer, as rain on its peak turns into snow. Farouk Kadded at Leica Geosystems said that this year, for the first time since 2015 - when scientists started measurements in June too - Mont Blanc's snowpack in September had remained virtually unchanged from June. "Normally, Mont Blanc gains one metre from June to September, but that did not happen this summer because several days of positive temperatures, even a record of 10 degrees Celsius," he added......read on  https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/mont-blanc-shrinks-over-two-metres-height-two-years-researchers-2023-10-05/

The mountain, which is capped by a ridge of ice covering the rock, was measured by a team of surveyors from the Haute-Savoie regional administration, aided by a drone. The results, published on Thursday, suggest the new official height of Mont Blanc is 4,805.59 metres. The previous reading, taken two years ago, recorded the summit at 4,807.81 metres, which was in turn almost a metre less than the measurement taken in 2017. Describing 2023 as a “somewhat exceptional year”, one of the surveyors involved, Denis Borel, told the French televisions channel TF1 that the mountain had lost “3,500 cubic metres of ice and snow compared to the volume measured in 2021, representing roughly the volume of an Olympic swimming pool”. Borel said the loss was “quite considerable compared to the measurements of previous eras”. Climate and glaciology experts cautioned against linking the shrinking of Mont Blanc’s summit to the loss of glacial ice cover in the Alps.

“Even if we see that there is a slight downward trend – around 15 to 20cm since 2001 – of this snowy summit of Mont Blanc, climatologists and glaciologists tell us that it takes approximately 50 years of measurement to be able to draw conclusions on possible global warming at this altitude of 4,800 metres,” said Borrel. Ice cover at the summit of Europe tended to experience variation, depending on wind and precipitation, he said.“This is not representative of global climate warming, because the climatic conditions at the summit of Mont Blanc are rather polar,” said Luc Moreau, a glaciologist from Chamonix. Moreau described a process called ablation in which wind accelerates evaporation. “It is mainly the wind and the snow which will influence the altitude of the summit. The wind will remove the snow or not,” he said, adding that the summit dome of Mont Blanc is more like a “dune complex” with strong winter winds stripping snow from the summit.

The 2.22-metre decline could be down to lower precipitation during summer, said Jean des Garets, chief geometer in the Haute-Savoie department of south-eastern France. “Mont Blanc could well be much taller in two years,” when it is next measured, he added.The mountain’s rocky peak measures 4,792 metres above sea level, but its thick covering of ice and snow varies in height from year to year depending on wind and weather.......read on         https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/oct/05/mont-blanc-height-peak-shrinks