Climbers Evacuated from Foot of Nanga Parbat to Military Base (UPDATED)

Azerbaijani climbers were not injured in the terrorist attack in the Pakistani province of Gilghit last night, where the attackers killed a tourist from Russia, five Ukrainians and three Chinese. This was in Gilghjit, northern Pakistan, according to Reuters.

The incident occurred around midnight. According to various estimates, ten or twelve armed men entered the hotel, woke the tourists, and then brought them into the street and shot them.

One of the ten victims was a tourists from Russia, five - from Ukraine, three - from China. The nationality of another tourist is not known, said Deputy Inspector-General of the province Gilghit, Ali Sher.

The names of the victims have not been announced. The bodies of the victims were taken by helicopter to the capital, Islamabad. Most of the dead were climbers. The hotel is Located at the foot of Nanga Parbat (8,156 m).

According to Captain Israfil Ashurly, three climbers from Azerbaijan were at this time on the route at a height of more than 6 million meters. In connection with the terrorist attack Pakistanitroops came to the mountain area to carry out an operation to destroy the militants. In this regard, the decision was to terminate the expedition. All the climbers from 10 countries on the mountain are coming down and going back to their homeland. -02B-

2013 June 22 (Saturday) 23:43:44

June 21 climbers from Azerbaijan participating in the international expedition to the Himalayan eightthousanderNanga Parbat set the second high-altitude camp at an altitude of 5,600 meters.

The processing route took 12 hours of continuous operation on a vertical Kirnshover Wall, Turan was told via satellite by the team captain and President of the Mountaineering Federation of the country Israfil Ashurly.

"June 22 the team continued the ascent to bivouac No 3 at an altitude of 7,100 meters. After that, the climbers will descend to the base camp to rest," said Ashurly.

 Previous 5 days have brought serious problems. Heavy snowfall lasted for several days and caused several avalanches that damaged several tents. In particular, in two tents of the Azerbaijani team the pillars were broken and the awning was torn.

"However, there were no serious losses because there was no one in the tents at the time, and we managed to fix the broken pillars," said Ashurly.

Despite all the difficulties, the people’s mood and feeling is good, said the captain.

Recall that in the international expedition there are representatives of several countries, including Azerbaijan.

The athletes are preparing to conquer Nanga Parbat (8,156 m) by the end of June or beginning of July. -02B-