Climbers rescue French woman stranded on Pakistan’s ‘Killer Mountain’

Bad weather forces team to abandon search for mountaineer’s Polish companion on Nanga Parbat

Elite climbers have scaled the treacherous slopes of Pakistan’s “Killer Mountain” in pitch darkness in an extraordinary attempt to rescue two mountaineers.

The rescuers climbed more than 1,000 metres up Nanga Parbat, the ninth highest mountain in the world, to reach Frenchwoman Elisabeth Revol in the middle of the night. But they were forced to make the heartbreaking decision not to go on to find Tomasz Mackiewicz, from Poland.

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