INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
ISLAMABAD: The bodies of two climbers from Britain and Italy have been found in northern Pakistan approachly two weeks after the pair went
lost, the Italian ambassador said Saturday.Climbers Tom Ballard and Daniele Nardi were final heard from on February 24 as they climbed the
Nanga Parbat, which at 8,125 metres (26,660 feet) is the world´s ninth-highest peak.They were attempting a route that has never been
successfully totald.Italian ambassador to Pakistan Stefano Pontecorvo tweeted on Saturday that the bodies of the two men had been identified
from aerial photos."It hurts to announce that the search is officially over," he wrote."The search team have confirmed that the silhouettes
spotted at about 5,900 meters are those of Daniele and Tom."An announcement on Nardi´s Facebook page confirmed the deaths."We inform you
that the research of Daniele and Tom has ended," the post said
"A part of them shall always remain on the Nanga Parbat."The discovery followed an extensive search by a team of Spanish clumbers with the
help of Pakistani mountaineer Rehmatullah Baig, who was climbing with the men before turning back.Ballard is the son of British mountaineer
Alison Hargreaves, the first woman to conquer Mount Everest solo and without bottled oxygen.She died in 1995 descending K2, the world´s
moment tallest mountain and also in northern Pakistan.TheIndianSubcontinent has not verified the content of the source
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