RAWALPINDI: Pakistan Army has started operation for rescue of the two foreign mountaineers who have gone missing at Nanga Parbat mountain on Saturday.
Media wing of Pakistan’s armed forces, Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) said, “An operation is in progress in response to request for rescue of one male and one female foreign mountaineers who are stuck in bad weather at Nanga Parbat.”
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Scaling Nanga Parbat, which is also known as ‘a killer mountain’, is not a cake walk.
“Two helicopters carrying four rescuers are undertaking rescue mission,” said the press release.
The request was made to Pakistan army to save the lives of those mountaineers by concerned embassies, ISPR said.
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