Remains of American climber Mallory Geis found on Pakistan's Broad Peak after avalanche kills 10-member expedition
Search teams found the remains of American climber Mallory Geis on Friday, the last missing member of a 10-person international mountaineering team killed in an avalanche on Broad Peak in Pakistan. The recovery concluded a search that began on July 31 after the expedition was swept away. Geis, 39, of San Antonio, Texas, was on her first attempt to climb an 8,000-meter peak in Pakistan.
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The remains of Mallory Geis were located by a team of local volunteers, according to Irfan Arshad Khan, president of the Alpine Club of Pakistan. Her recovery marked the end of the search for the final missing member of the ill-fated expedition on Broad Peak, a mountain in northern Pakistan that rises 8,051 meters (26,414 feet).
The expedition was led by Nirmal Purja, a Nepal-born former British Army soldier widely known as "Nims Dai," who became famous for climbing all 14 of the world's highest peaks in a record 189 days in 2019 — a feat documented in the Netflix film "14 Peaks: Nothing Is Impossible." That record was subsequently broken in 2023, the Associated Press reported.
Geis had announced on social media earlier this year that she was closing her Pilates studio in San Antonio to pursue a new direction in life. "I have a sneaking suspicion there will be lots of helmets, harnesses, and crampons involved," she wrote, according to the AP. The Broad Peak climb was her first attempt at an 8,000-meter peak.