Elite climbing team save French woman from Pakistan's 'Killer Mountain'

A french climber stranded on pinnacle of one among pakistan's most deadly mountains is safe after a dramatic rescue operation.

The look for her polish climbing companion, however, has been referred to as off.

Elisabeth revol and tomasz mackiewicz were mountain climbing nanga parbat, nicknamed "killer mountain", after they were given stuck at 7,400m (24,280ft) on friday.

An elite mountain climbing crew from poland who had been on nearby k2 rushed to the rescue, scaling the mountain overnight to find ms revol alive.

Four individuals of the group, who were attempting the first wintry weather ascent of k2 - the second highest mountain in the global - were added to nanga parbat via a pakistani army helicopter.

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They were dropped off approximately 1,000 metres beneath the misplaced climbers' final known region.

Denis urubko and adam bielecki started the climb at the same time as jaroslaw botor and piotr tomala established a camp.

Touch with ms revol and mr mackiewicz have been misplaced because the group climbed in the direction of their remaining known vicinity.

Then, inside the early hours of sunday morning nearby time, the hiking group's facebook page announced: "elisabeth revol determined!"

Tomasz mackiewicz, however, had been separated from ms revol. Earlier reports stated that he were affected by frostbite and snow blindness.

Ludovic giambiasi, a chum of ms revol's who had been in sporadic touch together with her, stated the climbers would relaxation for an hour or two in the outdoors before beginning the descent with mr revol."the rescue for tomasz is lamentably not viable," he wrote. "because of the weather and altitude it would positioned the life of rescuers in excessive chance.

"it is a horrible and painful choice. We're in deep sadness. All our mind exit to tomek's family and pals. We are crying."

All 5 climbers still alive are anticipated to be evacuated by helicopter to the town of skardu in a while sunday.A crowdfunding campaign to pay for the rescue strive had raised extra than $a hundred,000 (£74,000) by the point the information of ms revol's safety emerged.

Masha gordon, who installation the crowdfunding marketing campaign, published an update to the 4,000 supporters: "we're crying from happiness".

Mountaineers nicknamed nanga parbat, in northern pakistan, "killer mountain" after extra than 30 climbers died trying to overcome it before the primary successful summit in 1953.

Ultimate year, a spaniard and an argentinean have been presumed dead in an avalanche after they went missing seeking to scale the peak.

In 2013, gunmen killed 10 overseas climbers and their pakistani guide on the nanga parbat base camp.