Greatest Pakistani climber Ali Sadpara is no more

GILGIT: Pakistani mountaineer Ali Sadpara has been declared dead along with his two foreign counterparts by their families and the government of Pakistan.

The announcement was made by Ali Sadpara’s son, Sajid Sadpara, in Skardu. “I will keep my father’s mission alive and fulfil his dream,” he said.

He also thanked Prime Minister Imran Khan, Chief of the Army Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa and the courageous pilots of the Askari Aviation for conducting a thorough search and rescue operation amid the harsh weather for his father.

Sadpara, Iceland’s John Snorri and Chile’s Juan Pablo Mohr were about to summit the K-2 before they lost contact.  According to updates posted on Snorri’s facebook account on Friday, at 12:29pm, the GPS stopped working and had not updated in six hours.

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Ali Sadpara’s management revealed a few days ago that the government and other stakeholders were employing their best efforts to find Sadpara and the other climbers who went missing, despite him being missing for almost 10 days.

Sadpara’s management, which operates his official Twitter account, on Monday announced that a meeting of the apex committee regarding the missing climbers’ search and rescue (SAR) operation will be held on Feb 17, 2021, in Gilgit.

“Please avoid any premature statements and keep away from fake reports,” the management had said.