10 climbers, including Nirmal Purja, missing after avalanche on Broad Peak in PoK's Gilgit-Baltistan

Ten international climbers, including renowned Nepal-born mountaineer Nirmal Purja have gone missing after an avalanche struck Broad Peak, one of the world's highest mountains in Pakistan-occupied Gilgit-Baltistan.According to the Alpine Club of Pakistan, the avalanche hit the expedition around midday on Thursday on the 8,047-metre (26,400-foot) Broad Peak in the Karakoram range, the Associated Press reported.The missing team comprises five Nepalese climbers, Pakistani mountaineer Sohail Sakhi from Hunza, Omani climber Nathira, American climber Mallory Geis, a Chinese climber identified only as Wang, and another foreign climber, the club said.The team has remained out of communication since the incident. However, a tracking device carried by Purja has continued to show movement, offering a glimmer of hope as rescuers race against time to reach the team.Speaking to Kantipur on Friday, Purja's business partner and Nepal lawmaker Mingma Gyabu Sherpa said data from the mountaineer's tracking device indicated that his location had changed after the avalanche."Initially, it appeared that he had been swept downhill by the avalanche," Sherpa was quoted as saying by The Kathmandu Post. "But...