Rescuers recover climber Nirmal Purja's body: Alpine Club of Pakistan

Channel NewsAsia reports that rescuers have recovered the body of climber Nirmal Purja in Pakistan, according to the Alpine Club of Pakistan. Purja, a Nepalese mountaineer who set a record scaling all fourteen of the world's eight-thousand-meter peaks in under seven months, had been caught in an avalanche.

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