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ISLAMABAD:\u00a0 Pakistan military helicopter teams rescued six mountain climbers on Tuesday after an avalanche trapped them on a treacherous stretch of the Hindu Kush on the border with Afghanistan, officials said.<\/p>\n
The rescued climbers \u2014 four of them Italian, two of them Pakistani \u2014 were hit on Monday near the summit of the 5,800-meter Lions Melvin Jones Peak. Their Pakistani guide was killed immediately, officials said, and the survivors sustained minor injuries.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey have been rescued and are under treatment at the Combined Military Hospital in Gilgit,\u201d Naiknam Karim, the chief executive of Adventure Tours of Pakistan, said in a telephone interview from Gilgit, in northern Pakistan. \u201cThe Pakistani climbers can walk, while the Italian have minor injuries.\u201d<\/p>\n
Officials said it had taken two helicopters roughly four hours to bring the climbers down.<\/p>\n
Mr. Karim, whose company provided ground services for the climbers, said that the team, known as the Pakistan-Italian Friendship Expedition, had set out from base camp on June 5. It was the second time they had attempted the climb, which is in the Ishkoman Valley.<\/p>\n
The rugged, often unnamed peaks that run through northern Pakistan are\u00a0less\u00a0explored\u00a0than the neighboring Himalayas that stretch into northern India and Nepal, where most of the world\u2019s highest mountains are. Climbers say weather in the Hindu Kush is erratic.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe peaks are dangerous and known for their avalanches,\u201d said Mingma Sherpa, a Nepali climber who has summited mountains in the region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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