German biathlete and double Olympic champion Laura Dahlmeier participates in Adamello Ski Raid 2025. — Instagram/@ laura_dahlmeier /File
A rescue operation is underway in Gilgit-Baltistan area after two German mountaineers have been caught in a landslide whereas trying to summit Laila Peak (6,096 metres) within the Hushy valley of Ghanche district.
The accident occurred on Monday when Dahlmeier was hit by a landslide. She was climbing along with her companion, Marina Eva, additionally from Germany.
In a press release, GB authorities spokesperson Faizullah Faraq stated that one of many climbers, Marina Eva, was rescued on Tuesday.
He stated that the second German mountaineer Laura Dahlmeier stays lacking and is believed to be injured. “Aerial and ground teams are working around the clock to locate her,” he stated in a press release.
Dahlmeier retired from the game in 2019, aged 25, a 12 months after changing into the primary feminine biathlete to attain a dash and pursuit double on the similar Olympics.
The latest incident got here after a Czech vacationer, Klára Kolouchová, misplaced her life earlier this month after falling right into a ravine close to the Nanga Parbat base camp in Gilgit-Baltistan, officers confirmed.
The 46-year-old mountaineer was a part of a multinational expedition aiming to summit the 8,126-metre peak, referred to as Pakistan’s “Killer Mountain.”
The nation’s northern mountainous areas have skilled heavy flooding and landslides, killing a number of native vacationers throughout the present monsoon spell of rains.
Flooding and different rain-related accidents have killed 288 individuals in Pakistan for the reason that monsoon season started in late June, says the nation’s Nationwide Catastrophe Administration Authority.
