GB chief minister forms committee to review trekking rules after deadly Broad Peak avalanche
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- Gilgit-Baltistan has formed a three-member committee to review trekking regulations after a Broad Peak avalanche killed 10 people.
- The chief minister cited multiple mountaineering accidents this year that killed 13 foreign climbers and two Pakistanis.
- The review follows another fatality involving Pakistani climber Asma Mushtaq on Spantik Peak.
Gilgit-Baltistan Chief Minister Amjad Hussain has formed a three-member committee to review the region’s 1999 Trekking Rules and Regulations, following a deadly avalanche on Broad Peak.
The committee was announced several weeks after 10 mountaineers died when an avalanche struck an expedition led by British-Nepali climber Nirmal Purja on July 30. Purja’s company later said there were no survivors.
Hussain expressed deep concern over the number of mountaineering accidents in Gilgit-Baltistan this year. The accidents have claimed the lives of 13 foreign climbers, as well as two Pakistanis.
In another recent incident, Pakistani climber Asma Mushtaq, 34, died on Spantik Peak on Aug. 20 while descending after suffering from high-altitude sickness. A ground team recovered her body on Monday, nearly 10 days after her death on the 7,027-metre mountain.
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