K2 winter Summit

• The members of the GB cabinet paid rich tributes to Sadpara and prayed for him.
• The GB cabinet also given green-signal for the establishment of Muhammad Ali Sadpara Institute of Adventure Sports Mountaineering and Climbing, to honor his achievement.

• Sajid says despite hectic efforts by the government and Pakistan Army, we were unable to locate the climbers
• The three missing K2 climbers, who went missing two weeks ago, could not be traced due to harsh weather conditions

• Qureshi briefed his Chilean counterpart of efforts being made by Pakistan to locate them, including a number of search flights by Pakistan Army Aviation helicopters amid challenging weather conditions.
• Sadpara, Snorri and Mohr lost contact with the base camp on Friday and were reported missing on Saturday.

Muhammad Ali Sadpara, John Snorri from Iceland and JP Mohr from Chile lost contact with the base camp on Friday and were reported missing on Saturday after their support team stopped receiving communications from them. "It has been four days today. No one has seen my father since that day. He is up there somewhere, 8,000-feet high," says Sajid Ali.

• Ali Sadpara’s long-time friend Rao Ahmad and his son Sajid Sadpara along with British-American climber, Vanessa O’Brien, have formed a virtual base camp to ensure a thorough search-and-rescue effort
• The families of missing mountaineers have requested the government to continue to provide search and rescue support

• Sherpa says rescue team had less visibility and the upper parts of the mountain are covered in clouds
• Sadpara, John Snorri from Iceland and JP Mohr from Chile lost contact with the base camp on Friday and were reported missing on Saturday after their support team stopped receiving communications from them

• Two army helicopters with local mountaineers and porters have departed from Skardu on the rescue mission
• Sadpur and two other mountaineers, John Snorri from Iceland and Juan Pablo Mohr from Chile, had gone missing on Saturday

• Sadpara has been active on Twitter throughout the K-2 expedition.
• Pakistan Army helicopters have been dispatched for search and rescue operations. So far, the rescue mission has not been able to locate the climbers.
• Pakistani actor, singer and host Fakhar-e-Alam tweeted about the missing climbers too, requesting his followers to pray for their recovery.

• Sadpara and his son have reached Hotel Nek and they can summit the second highest mountain of the world today (Friday) at any time.
• A climber hailing from Balgharia slipped and fell while returning to the Camp-3 along with other climbers.

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• The group stopped 10m below the top, and took the final steps together to be on the top simultaneously.
• K2 was the last of the fourteen 8,000-meter peaks not summited in winter.