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Operation launched to trace missing climbers
GILGIT: The Army Aviation and mountaineers launched a joint operation on Thursday to trace two missing climbers at Nanga Parbat.
The rescue team detected tent of the missing climbers at Camp-3 and found some traces of avalanche in the area. It is feared that the two mountaineers have been hit by the avalanche.
The two mountaineers, Daniel Nardi from Italy and Tom Ballard from UK, who were attempting to summit Nanga Parbat through a new route, went missing from Camp-4 at 6,300 metres altitude on February 24.