Pakistan Army recovers body of American mountaineer from near K2
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A Reuters file photo of the mountains during winters.
This is the second death of a foreign climber in the area in less than a week
Helicopter team spotted American mountaineer s remains during search and rescue operation
ISLAMABAD: The body of American mountaineer Alex Goldfarb-Rumyantzev was located by the Pakistan Army on Monday in the Karakoram mountains in northern Pakistan, making it second death of a foreign climber in the area in less than a week.
A helicopter team spotted Goldfarb s remains during a search and rescue operation that began on Sunday, according to the Alpine Club of Pakistan. He appeared to have fallen off the mountain, Hungarian expedition company Magyar Expedicios, which was supporting the climbers, said in a statement.
A missing Russian-American climber died on a mountain while preparing to scale the world's 12th-highest peak, having refused to turn back in dangerous winter conditions, a spokesman for the expedition said Tuesday.
ISLAMABAD - A Russian-American climber who went missing last week while trying to scale a mountain amid harsh winter weather in northern Pakistan has been f