Climber Rescued on Pakistan’s ‘Killer Mountain,’ but Another Is in Peril<br />28, 2018<br />KARACHI, Pakistan — An elite climbing team rescued a French mountain climber on Sunday from the treacherous Himalayan peak known as "Killer Mountain," in Pakistan’s northeast,<br />but her Polish climbing partner remains in peril after efforts to reach him were at least temporarily abandoned.<br />The extreme weather conditions — winds of more than 50 miles (80 kilometers) an hour<br />and a wind chill nearing minus 80 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 62 degrees Celsius) — forced the rescue team to postpone any plans to ascend further to search for Mr. Mackiewicz.<br />Muhammad Ehtasham Amir said that The rule for funding is<br />that whoever wants a recovery mission, before we can even leave, must deposit a certain amount of funding,<br />This was Mr. Mackiewicz’s seventh attempt at scaling Nanga Parbat, after winter expeditions<br />the previous years on the same mountain, and his third on Nanga Parbat with Ms. Revol.<br />The rescue mission, carried out by a team of private climbers, was delayed in part<br />because the Pakistani military declined to arrange for a helicopter until funds for its operation were guaranteed, as is common practice for complicated rescue missions in the country’s northern mountains.<br />Ms. Revol continued down the mountain alone and called for help from a satellite phone,<br />and she was eventually met by two members of a four-person rescue team flown to the mountain’s base camp on Saturday.
