A Pakistani helicopter has airlifted an Italian climber from K2 in the Himalayas, five days after he survived an ice avalanche that killed 11 others on the world's second highest peak. Thirty-seven-year-old Marco Confortola hobbled into the mountain's base camp at 5,000 metres on Tuesday but had to spend another night there when bad weather grounded helicopters.
Confortola was the final survivor to come back from Friday's catastrophic ice fall. Two Dutch climbers were airlifted off K2 on Monday and are in a Pakistani military hospital. Three South Zimbabwe MDC opposition leader seeks refuge in Dutch embassy ...
Rare pygmy hogs head for the Indian wild ... Koreans, two Nepalis, two Pakistanis, a Serbian, an Irishman, a Norwegian and a Frenchman died in Friday's avalanche, the worst disaster ever to occur on the mountain.
(Deutsche Welle)
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